The perils of peace : the public health crisis in occupied Germany / Jessica Reinisch
At the end of the war in 1945 Germany was a country with no government, little functioning infrastructure, millions of refugees and homeless people, and huge foreign armies living largely off the land. Large parts of the country were covered in rubble with no clean drinking water, electricity, or ga...
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| Main Authors: | Reinisch, Jessica (Author) |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press, 2013 |
| Edition: | 1. ed |
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| Online Access: | Inhaltsverzeichnis Rezension (H-Soz-Kult) Book review (H-Net) |
| Table of Contents |
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| 1. Introduction2. A hard peace? Allied preparations for the occupation of Germany, 1943-1945 |
| 3. 'Can we distinguish the sheep from the wolves?': Émigrés, allies, and the reconstruction of Germany |
| 4. 'Now, back to our Virchow': German medical and political traditions in post-war Berlin |
| 5. Public health work in the British Occupation Zone |
| 6. Public health work in the American Occupation Zone |
| 7. Public health work in the Soviet Occupation Zone |
| 8. The forgotten zone: public health work in the French Occupation Zone |
| 9. Some conclusions |
| Bibliography |
| Index. |
