The access to female material for experimentation had tempted Stumpfegger to come and do some tests himself: he wanted to break bones and see if they would grow back together again. Stumpfegger, another Himmler favourite, proposed the experiments to Gebhardt. Gebhardt knew Stumpfegger well – they had worked on the German medical team at the 1936 Berlin Olympics – but he claimed later that he opposed Stumpfegger’s tests on the grounds that such experiments had already been done.
