That's Gotta Hurt
It can get pretty cold here in the winter but I don't recall ever hearing about this particularly painful way to fall victim to the elements before. German Panzer Group commander Heinz Guderian on the conditions in Russia in 1941 from Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust:
A few days later Guderian recorded an outside temperature of -63F; "many men died while performing their natural functions," he wrote gruesomely, "as a result of the congelation of the anus."
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