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dc.contributor.authorReinisch, Jessica
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-12 16:12:52
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T12:40:02Z
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-13 23:55
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-12 16:12:52
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T12:40:02Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T12:40:02Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier1000047
dc.identifierOCN: 1076724229en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29905
dc.description.abstractWhen the war was over 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 gas. Hospitals overflowed with patients, but were short of beds, medicines, and medical personnel. In these conditions, the potential for epidemics and public health disasters was severe. This is a study of how the four occupiers—Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States—attempted to keep their own troops and the ex-enemy population alive. While the war was still being fought, German public health was a secondary consideration for them, an unaffordable and undeserved luxury. But once fighting ceased and the occupation began, it rapidly turned into a urgent priority. Public health was now recognized as an indispensable component of creating order, keeping the population governable, and facilitating the reconstruction of German society. But they faced a number of insoluble problems in the process: Which Germans could be trusted to work with the occupiers, and how were they to be identified? Who could be tolerated because of a lack of alternatives? How, if at all, could former Nazis be reformed and reintegrated into German society? What was the purpose of the occupation anyway? This is the first carefully researched comparison of the four occupation zones which looks at the occupation through the prism of public health, an essential service fundamentally shaped by political and economic criteria, and which in turn was to determine the success or failure of the occupation.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999::3MPQ Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999en_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHW Military history::NHWR Specific wars and campaigns::NHWR7 Second World Waren_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHW Military history::NHWL Modern warfareen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999::3MPB Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950::3MPBL c 1940 to c 1949::3MPBLB c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period)en_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicineen_US
dc.subject.otherpost-war germany
dc.subject.otherpublic health
dc.subject.otherworld war ii
dc.titleChapter Compromises and Confrontations, 1945-1949
dc.title.alternativeThe Public Health Crisis in Occupied Germany
dc.typechapter
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oapen.collectionWellcome
oapen.pages337
oapen.chapternumber1
oapen.grant.number097779
oapen.identifier.ocn1076724229


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