First, eight male prisoners were placed in a large tank of near-freezing water and left there until they passed out. Each of the men was removed from the tank, unconscious, and placed between two Ravensbrück women lying naked in a spacious bed. The women were told to nestle as close as possible to the moribund man. All three were covered with blankets. The result was that the men quickly revived. Once the subjects regained consciousness they did not lose it again, but ‘very quickly grasped the situation’, as Rascher put it later, and ‘snuggled up to the naked female bodies’.
