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

• VerfasserIn: Reinisch, Jessica,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Oxford University Press,, 2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 324 pages) :; illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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...

Table of 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--