GRAWITZ: Well, we shall wait then with the memorandum until you have a few hundred cases, then we shall continue. Of course, I would not like the Reich Leader SS to believe that I want to impede you. But if something has not yet been proved to a great extent, we cannot distribute anything to the troops that might spread uncertainty among the responsible authorities! Everything may be true for freezing by water, but we don’t have that in the Waffen SS. So you agree to wait with the distribution of the memorandum. RASCHER: Gruppenfuehrer, anyway it is entirely your affair, whether the memorandum is issued now, as you are responsible for it. I composed the memorandum on the basis of these few cases of dry freezing, because the Reich Leader SS pressed for its publication. In composing the memorandum, I was fully aware of the necessity that many experiments still have to be carried out, and I also submitted this view on the occasion of a discussion with the Reich Leader SS in Dachau. But the Reich Leader saw the results in Dachau and in wanting to help the troops ordered the memorandum to be drawn up. GRAWITZ: In composing a memorandum or in any other scientific work you should not let anybody press you, not even the Reich Leader SS, that will never do! Well now, you’ll send me a copy of all your medical correspondence with the Ahnenerbe, and you’ll no longer write directly to the Reich Leader SS in medical matters but write to me, as it comes to me anyway. Will you do that? RASCHER: I’ll have to discuss the matter with Standartenfuehrer Sievers first, this comes too much as a surprise. GRAWITZ: Well, I shall send you a copy of my letter to Dr. Brandt so that you can get a clear picture. I am very pleased to have established such a close contact with you. This is a certified true copy. [Signature] WOLFF SS Untersturmfuehrer TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 1616-PS PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 105 LETTER FROM RASCHER TO HIMMLER, 17 FEBRUARY 1943, AND SUMMARY OF EXPERIMENTS FOR REWARMING OF CHILLED HUMAN BEINGS BY ANIMAL WARMTH, 12 FEBRUARY 1943 Dr. S. Rascher SS Hauptsturmfuehrer Munich, 17 February 1943 To the Reich Leader SS and Chief of the German Police Heinrich Himmler Berlin SW 11, Prinz Albrecht Str. 8 Dear Reich Leader, Enclosed I present to you in condensed form a summary of the results of the experiments made in warming up people who have been cooled off by using animal heat.