The perils of peace : the public health crisis in occupied Germany /
This is an archive-based study examining how the four Allies - Britain, France, the United States and the Soviet Union - prepared for and conducted their occupation of Germany after its defeat in 1945. It uses the case of public health to shed light on the complexities of the immediate post-war peri...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I: Allies and Germans. A hard peace? Allied preparations for the occupation of Germany, 1943-1945 ; 'Can we distinguish the sheep from the wolves?' : émigrés, Allies, and the reconstruction of Germany ; 'Now, back to our Virchow' : German medical and political traditions in post-war Berlin
- Part II: Compromises and confrontations, 1945-1949. Introduction ; Public health work in the British Occupation Zone ; Public health work in the American Occupation Zone ; Public health work in the Soviet Occupation Zone ; The forgotten Zone : public health work in the French Occupation Zone
- Some Conclusions.