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The Perils of Peace - The Public Health Crisis in Occupied Germany (Hardcover, New)
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The Perils of Peace - The Public Health Crisis in Occupied Germany (Hardcover, New)
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC
BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford
Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and
selected open access locations. 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 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. In The Perils of Peace Jessica Reinisch considers 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 an urgent priority.
Public health was then 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
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 in the first place? 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.
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