11-06-2006, 08:11 PM
Today I was lucky enough to snatch one more of these documents from the same source. This one is even more interesting, as it involves an SS officer "making available prisoners for high-altitude survival experiments". I'm sure some of you have seen the films of the tests on prisoners that were done on behalf of the Luftwaffe, to set how much a pilot (or in this case a poor prisoner) could endure in terms of exposure to cold and etc. Were it not for the fact that I know these things actually happened I would view a document like this as something straight out of a horror novel.
Jim 