Walter Schreiber
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[13] pages
Envelope 21/9 ; microfilm reel 098 ; Frames 83-97
Scope and Content
Walter Scheiber was born on March 21, 1893 in Berlin. He was Brigadier General of the Medical Service of the Wehrmacht, Dr. of Medicine and considered an expert in epidemiology. He Was a critic of human experimentation during World War II , and Was taken prisoner by the Soviet Army on April 30, 1945. Scheiber Was a surprise witness for the Soviet prosecution against Herman Goering and an expert consultant for the Medical Trial. He evaded his Soviet handler in 1948 and worked beginning in 1949 for the Allies as a post physican at Camp King, a clandestine POW interrogation camp in Oberusel. He arrived in the U.S. on Sept. 17, 1951 with his family as part of "Operation Paperclip" and on May 22, 1952 he and his family obtained visas to move to Argentina where another daughter lived. He worked as a physican at an epidemological research laboratory and died of a sudden heart attack on 5 Sept. 1970 in San Carlos de Bariloche Rio Negro, Argentina. -- Wikipedia (viewed 26.1.2017)
Newspaper clippings and Biography.
Note(s)
Detailed dates of material: 1948, 1952-1955, 1958.
People
- Schreiber, Walter, 1893-1970
Subjects
- Scientists--Recruiting--United States--History--20th century.
- Physicians--Recruiting--Germany--History--20th century.