| LC control no. | no2015101556 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Schreiber, Walter, 1893-1970 |
| Variant(s) | Schreiber, Walter Paul Emil, 1893-1970 |
| Associated country | United States Argentina |
| Located | Oberursel (Germany) |
| Birth date | 18930321 |
| Death date | 19700905 |
| Place of birth | Berlin (Germany) |
| Place of death | San Carlos de Bariloche (Argentina) |
| Field of activity | World War, 1939-1945 Nuremberg Medical Trial, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1947 Operation Paperclip |
| Affiliation | Camp King (Oberursel, Germany) |
| Profession or occupation | Epidemiologists Generals |
| Found in | The Nuremberg Medical Trial 1946/47, Transcripts, Material of the Prosecution and Defense, Related Documents...Guide to the Microfiche-Edition, 2001: p. 382 (Schreiber, Walter) Wikipedia WWW site, viewed July 29, 2015: (Walter Scheiber, b. 21 March 1893 in Berlin; was Brigadier General of the Medical Service of the Wehrmacht; Dr. of Medicine and considered an expert in epidemiology. Was a critic of human experimentation during World War II. Was taken prisoner by the Soviet Army on April 30, 1945. Was 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. 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) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Schreiber> |
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