Juchli enlisted in the Army in 1917 and served at the
Army Medical School in Washington, D.C. and in North Carolina, where he was promoted to sergeant. After the war, he worked for a brief time as a principal and superintendent of schools at Hitchcock and Capron, Oklahoma. He returned to Amsterdam, NY where he was employed as an X-ray and clinical specialist for Dr. Lew Finch. After graduating from medical school he returned to the Army and was commissioned a first lieutenant at the
Medical Field Service School in Carlisle, PA. Returning to Amsterdam in June 1932, he practiced
family medicine until Pearl Harbor when he returned to the military as a captain. He served as a radiologist in New York City and
St. John's Newfoundland until 1943, when he was promoted to major and transferred to the office of the
Surgeon General,
Washington D.C., to serve as chief liaison officer of the
Provost Marshal General. He was responsible for the health of
prisoners of war held in the continental US.
Hermann Göring, Hitler's Deputy Fuhrer
Rudolf Hess,
Joachim von Ribbentrop, grand admiral
Karl Dönitz,
Ernst Kaltenbrunner, field marshal
Wilhelm Keitel,
Baldur von Schirach,
Alfred Rosenberg,
Hans Frank,
Julius Streicher, generaloberst
Alfred Jodl, and
Franz von Papen. Juchli found Göring good-humored and he had to constantly remind himself of the atrocities that he had committed in order to keep himself from liking him. Göring was found guilty and sentenced to death. He committed suicide with a potassium cyanide capsule the night before he was scheduled to be hanged. Hess claimed complete amnesia. French and English psychiatrists had confirmed Hess' claim of amnesia. Juchli refuted this saying, "The case is strange as Hess does not remember his flight to Britain but, in his next statement, complains that we (the Americans) are not treating him as well as the British did". ==Later life==