Language:
English
Year of publication:
1997
Titel der Quelle:
Patterns of Prejudice
Angaben zur Quelle:
31,3 (1997) 51-77
Keywords:
Schreiber, Walter
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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World War, 1939-1945 Medical care
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Human experimentation in medicine
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War crime trials
Abstract:
Approximately 50 Nazi war criminals and 800 pro-Nazi German activists arrived in Argentina after World War II. Claims that despite "oceans of ink" devoted to depicting Argentina as the foremost refuge for Nazi war criminals, this charge has never been proven. Holds the USA partially responsible for Argentina being a haven for German war criminals, citing the case of Walter Schreiber. After World War II, U.S. officials, motivated by Cold War considerations, helped Schreiber, a German expert on epidemiology and bacteriology deeply implicated in human experiments in Buchenwald, emigrate to the USA by suppressing negative information about him revealed at the Nuremberg war crimes trials. When Schreiber's wartime past became public knowledge in the USA, a scandal ensued and, in 1952, American officials helped him to settle in Argentina.
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