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While collecting evidence against Her mann Goring, the war criminal, Allied investigators learned much about Goring, the scientist. Last week they told how he sometimes used Germany's helpless hu man guinea pigs.

Goring wanted a better method of reviving Luftwaffe flyers fished out of cold northern waters. Dachau concentration camp was an ideal place for experimentation. Nazi doctors there, on Goring's orders, chilled political prisoners in every imaginable way, often until their pulse and breathing stopped. Then they tried reviving the victims.

In two cases at least, the Nazis brought men back from the point of death. The captured documents did not record exactly how many times they tried the experiment and failed.

The victims did not respond very well to cold compresses, commonly used in cold-water immersion cases. More effective was hot water, which the investigators have recommended to U.S. lifeguard and rescue services.

Among the heating elements used were four "very good-looking, clean, young" gypsy girls from Ravenbrueck prison camp. Stripped naked, they were wrapped in the same blankets with the moribund victim. Goring's plan -- if their warmth proved therapeutic -- was to outfit Nazi rescue vessels with similar warming units.

A single naked gypsy girl, the solemn report stated, proved more effective than two in raising the chilled victim's temperature.

The method was hardly original -- nor even "Aryan." Aged King David (Kings 1: 1:1-4) was thus warmed by Abishag, a fair young virgin Shunammite, when his body "gat no heatt; But the experiment had been no more successful in Jerusalem than it was in Dachau.

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