Dr. Walter P. Schreiber, who commanded the department of medical science of Hitler’s supreme command, will not be retained in the employment of the U.S. Air Force after the expiration of his contraction February 28, a spokesman for the Department of Defense said today. The doctor, who has been accused of complicity in Nazi medical atrocities, has worked for the Air Force School of Aviation Medicine at Randolph Field, Texas, since September, 1951. The Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith yesterday sent the following telegram to Robert A. Lovett:
“We have noted with shock that Dr. Walter P. Schreiber, war-time chief of medical science in the supreme command of Nazi Wehrmacht, is now serving in our own armed forces as a doctor attached to the Air Force School of Aviation Medicine.
“Schreiber’s name figures prominently at the Nuremburg trials of Nazi war criminals as one who was strongly implicated in inhuman medical research carried on with concentration camp prisoners as guinea pigs. He was never brought to trial because he was held by the Russians. Yet his record is such that it calls for a thorough investigation on your part to determine whether he should be immediately relieved of his post in the Air Force School and returned to Germany.”
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