A decision to investigate the case of Dr. Walter Schreiber, former Nazi General charged with being an “accessory” to the atrocities in the Nazi concentration camps and now on the payroll of the United States Air Force, was adopted last night at a meeting of the Medical Society here. The charges against Dr. Schreiber were brought by a group of Boston doctors.
Brig. Gen. Otis O. Benson Jr., commander of the Air Force School of Aviation Medicine, where the former Nazi General has worked for six months, announced today that Dr. Schreiber will be taken off the school’s payroll within 24 hours and turned over to the Joint Intelligence Agency in Washington, for repatriation or any other disposition it sees fit to make. Talking to newsmen, Dr. Schreiber said today that he has been “assured” of a public hearing of charges that he was implicated in concentration atrocities.
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