Medicine: Echoes from Nürnberg

Dr. Walter Paul Emil Schreiber used to be a Wehrmacht major general, and when he rose to make a speech at the Randolph Field (Texas) Officers' Club last fall, it was clear that he still saw himself as something of a hero. The U.S. Air Force School of Aviation Medicine, which was employing him, apparently saw Dr. Schreiber much as he saw himself. Its officers applauded heartily after Schreiber had finished describing his capture by the Russians (in Berlin, 1945), his four months of third degree in Moscow's Lubianka Prison, his two years of Soviet indoctrination and his escape to the...

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