Public Health Work in the British Occupation Zone - The Perils of Peace - NCBI Bookshelf.pdf

When 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...

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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-299012021-11-12T16:10:41Z Chapter 5 Public Health Work in the British Occupation Zone Reinisch, Jessica post-war germany public health world war ii bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJD European history bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBL History: earliest times to present day::HBLW 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000::HBLW3 Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBW Military history::HBWQ Second World War bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine When 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. 2018-10-03 09:09:28 2020-04-01T12:40:00Z 2015-05-13 23:55 2018-10-03 09:09:28 2020-04-01T12:40:00Z 2020-04-01T12:40:00Z 2013 chapter 1000051 OCN: 1076723125 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29901 eng application/pdf n/a Public Health Work in the British Occupation Zone - The Perils of Peace - NCBI Bookshelf.pdf Oxford University Press The Perils of Peace b9501915-cdee-4f2a-8030-9c0b187854b2 cdb1f8e2-253e-498f-a55d-bc8da91620aa d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd Wellcome 337 1 097779 Wellcome Trust Wellcome open access
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description When 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.
title Public Health Work in the British Occupation Zone - The Perils of Peace - NCBI Bookshelf.pdf
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