The perils of peace : the public health crisis in occupied Germany / Jessica Reinisch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reinisch, Jessica, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public health--Germany--History--20th century.

Public health.

Public health administration--Germany--History--20th century.

Public health administration.

Germany--History--1945-1955.

Germany.

Germany--Social conditions--1945-1955.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 324 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

textfile

Summary:

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 period.

Contents:

PART I: ALLIES AND GERMANS

2. A Hard Peace? Allied Preparations for the Occupation of Germany, 1943-1945

3. 'Can we distinguish the sheep from the wolves?': Émigrés, Allies, and the Reconstruction of Germany

4. 'Now, back to our Virchow': German Medical and Political Traditions in Post-war Berlin

PART II: COMPROMISES AND CONFRONTATIONS, 1945-1949

Introduction

5. Public Health Work in the British Occupation Zone

6. Public Health Work in the American Occupation Zone

7. Public Health Work in the Soviet Occupation Zone

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 26, 2013).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9780191748295

9780191636554

019163655X

OCLC:

922972235

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access