Walter Schreiber Dr Walter Paul Emil Schreiber ( 21 March 1893 – 5 September 1970 ) was a German military officer and brigadier - general ( " Generalarzt " ) of the Medical Service of the Wehrmacht . Schreiber was born in Berlin to Paul Schreiber ( a postal inspector ) and his wife Gertrud Kettlitz . After completing gymnasium in Berlin , he studied medicine 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 the First 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 the University of Greifswald . In 1933 , he joined the Nazi Party . In October 1942 , Schreiber attended the conference , where the results of human experiments at Dachau were presented . In May 1943 , he headed the third session of the advisory specialists of the Armed Forces . This led to a confrontation because of the experiments with typhus on concentration camp prisoners . In applying the Ipsenschen murine typhus vaccine Dr Rose was in 1943 commissioned to inquire with the Hygiene Institute of the Waffen - SS , whether in the Buchenwald concentration camp one could one test the vaccine on prisoners . In September 1943 , Schreiber accepted the position of the commander of the Training Division C of the Military Medical Academy . In 1944 , Dr Schreiber conferred with Dr . Karl Brandt , the attorney for health care , scientific advisory board . In 1945 , he was taken prisoner of war by the Red Army in Berlin and taken to the Soviet Union . On 26 August 1946 Schreiber gave evidence at the Nuremberg Trials in support of the Soviet Chief Prosecutor , Roman Rudenko . A recording of his testimony at the trial can be found at the online archive of the Imperial War Museum . The transcript link is here 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 , the Volkspolizei . After presenting himself to the Allied military authorities in West Berlin , who interrogated him , Schreiber was hired to work with the Counter Intelligence Corps . In her book " Secret Agenda " , Linda Hunt reveals that Schreiber was employed at Camp King , a large POW interrogation center in Oberursel , Germany . He arrived in New York on Sep 17 , 1951 with his wife ( Olga Conrad Schreiber ) and son ( Paul - Gerhard Schreiber ) and mother in - law ( Marie Conrad ) on the USNS General Maurice Rose , ( T - Ap216 ) . The manifest of the ship does not list travel documents for them , but declares them to be " Paper Clips " . Schreiber was subsequently taken to the United States as part of Operation Paperclip . On 7 October 1951 the " New York Times " reported that he was working at the Air Force School of Medicine at Randolph Air Force Base in Texas . 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 the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency to arrange " a visa and a job for Schreiber in Argentina , where his daughter Elisabeth was living . " On 22 May 1952 he was flown to Buenos Aires . In Argentina , he worked at an epidemiological laboratory . Some accounts suggest he subsequently moved to Paraguay and West Germany , while another claims he died in Italy in 1952 . According to a family post at ancestry . com , he died on 5 September 1970 in San Carlos de Bariloche , Río Negro , Argentina .