- Walter Schreiber
Dr Walter Paul Emil Schreiber (
21 March 1893 – 1952?) was a German military officer andbrigadier-general ("Generalarzt") of the Medical Service of theWehrmacht .Schreiber was born in
Berlin to Paul Schreiber (a postal inspector) and his wife Gertrud Kettlitz. After completing gymnasium in Berlin, he studiedmedicine at the universities of Berlin, Tübingen, and Greifswald.In 1914, he enlisted voluntarily for military service and served with the 42nd Infantry Regiment in
France . He was injured at theFirst Battle of the Marne . After his recovery, he continued with his studies and served as a temporary doctor on the Western Front until the end of the war in 1918.In 1920, he graduated
Dr. med. from theUniversity of Greifswald .In 1945, he was taken
prisoner of war by the Red Army in Berlin and taken to theSoviet Union .On
26 August 1946 Schreiber gave evidence at theNuremberg Trials in support of the Soviet Chief Prosecutor,Roman Rudenko .On
17 October 1948 he fled the Soviet Occupation Zone, where the Soviets intended him to assume the position of Chief Medical Officer in the newly formed East German Police Force, theVolkspolizei .After presenting himself to the Allied military authorities in
West Berlin , who interrogated him, Schreiber was hired to work with theCounter Intelligence Corps . In her book "Secret Agenda", Linda Hunt reveals that Schreiber was employed atCamp King , a large POW interrogation center inOberursel , Germany. [http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/news/25406.htm]Schreiber was subsequently taken to the
United States as part ofOperation Paperclip . On7 October 1951 the "New York Times" reported that he was working at the Air Force School of Medicine atRandolph Air Force Base inTexas .When journalist Drew Pearson publicized Schreiber's Nuremberg evidence in 1952, which showed he had assigned doctors to experiment on
concentration camp prisoners and had made funds available for such experimentation, the negative publicity led theJoint Intelligence Objectives Agency to arrange "a visa and a job for Schreiber inArgentina , where his daughter was living." On22 May 1952 he was flown toBuenos Aires . [http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Fascism/Operation_Paperclip_file.html] , [http://www.archives.gov/iwg/declassified-records/rg-330-defense-secretary/]In Argentina, he worked at an epidemiological laboratory. Some accounts suggest he subsequently moved to
Paraguay andWest Germany , while another claims he died in Italy in 1952. [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Schreiber]
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