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100 1 $aReinisch, Jessica$4auth
245 10 $aChapter Compromises and Confrontations, 1945-1949 : The Public Health Crisis in Occupied Germany
260 $bOxford University Press$c2013
300 $a1 electronic resource (337 p.)
506 0 $aOpen Access$2star$fUnrestricted online access
520 $aWhen 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.
536 $aWellcome Trust
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650 7 $aEuropean history$2bicssc
650 7 $aPostwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000$2bicssc
650 7 $aSecond World War$2bicssc
650 7 $aHistory of medicine$2bicssc
653 $apost-war germany
653 $apublic health
653 $aworld war ii
773 10 $0OAPEN Library ID: 1000047$tThe Perils of Peace$7nnaa
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856 40 $awww.oapen.org$uhttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29905$70$zOAPEN Library: description of the publication