第三帝国の軍医総監、ド イツ軍最高司令部の帝国医務総責任者、帝国研究評議会のメンバー、および化学・生物兵器防衛責任者。戦争末期のベルリン攻防戦でソビエト側に捕らえられ、 消息不明だったもが、突如としてニュルンベルク裁判でソ連側の証人として現れた。ペーパークリップ作戦では、アメリカ陸軍のオーバーウィーゼルの〈キャン プ・キング〉とテキサス州のアメリカ空軍航空医学校に招聘された。

"On 30 April 1945, while caring for wounded in a makeshift hospital in Berlin, he was taken prisoner of war by the Red Army and transported to the Soviet Union.[2] On 26 August 1946, Schreiber appeared as a surprise witness at the Nuremberg Trials, giving evidence in support of the Soviet Chief Prosecutor, Roman Rudenko, against, Hermann Göring and Kurt Blome, who had been in charge of German offensive biological weapons development.[7][8] A recording of his testimony at the trial can be found at the online archive of the Imperial War Museum.[9] The transcript became part of the Nuremberg proceedings against German major war criminals.[4] Dr. Schreiber, whose long-standing record against the use of offensive biological warfare and human experimentation was well established, was himself never charged or considered for prosecution on war crimes charges./ In fall 1948, Dr. Schreiber reappeared in the West with his wife, his son and one of his adult daughters. In a press conference on 2 November, he explained that he had initially been held in Lubyanka Prison in the USSR where he became ill almost to death. Only when the captured former German ambassador to Russia, Norbert von Baumbach, became ill and refused care from anyone but Generalarzt, Dr. Schreiber, was the doctor's true identity discovered by Soviet authorities. Schreiber reported he was then given medical attention and moved to a series of safe houses in the Soviet Zone of Germany. There he remained to provide medical care to former Nazi generals. Still under Soviet custody, he was later given the rank of starshina, and was ultimately offered the position of Chief Medical Officer in the newly formed East German Police Force, the Volkspolizei. Rejecting this position, Schreiber reported that he was then offered a professorship at the University of Leipzig. However, in hopes of finding his family, requested the University of Berlin instead. In response, Soviet authorities reported they were holding Schreiber's family in the USSR, thereby convincing Dr. Schreiber to relocate and join other German scientists who had already been taken there (see Russian Alsos).[10] In the meantime, his daughter, who had presented herself to Allied military authorities in the American Occupation Zone, learned that the Soviets were transporting more German scientists to the Soviet Union, her father presumably among them. Boarding multiple trains, she walked the cars until she caught her father's attention. Seeing an opportunity, Dr. Schreiber evaded his handler and on 17 October took a train from Dresden to Berlin where he presented himself to the Allied Control Authority in West Berlin.[8][11] Dr. Schreiber was subsequently hired to work with the Counter Intelligence Corps and beginning in 1949 was employed as post physician at Camp King, a large clandestine POW interrogation center in Oberursel, Germany.[12]" - Walter Schreiber.

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• Walter Schreiber.

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• ジェイコブセン，アニー『ナチ科学者を獲得せよ：アメリカ極秘プロジェクトペーパークリップ作戦』加藤万里子訳、太田出版、2015年／ Jacobsen, Annie, 2014. Operation Paperclip: The secret intelligence program that bought Nazi sciencetists to America. New York: Little Brown.

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