The Perils of Peace: The Public Health Crisis in Occupied Germany
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The Perils of Peace: The Public Health Crisis in Occupied Germany
Copyright
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
1: Introduction
The historical context
The historiographical context
Part I: Allies and Germans
2: A Hard Peace? Allied Preparations for the Occupation of Germany, 1943–1945
American and British plans for the occupation of Germany
(i) Starting premises
(ii) The Morgenthau Plan
Plans for public health
(i) Public health as ‘civil affairs’
(ii) Liberated vs enemy countries
(iii) Public health plans for Germany
The other two? Soviet and French approaches to the occupation of Germany
(i) The Soviet Union
(ii) France
Conclusions
3: ‘Can we distinguish the sheep from the wolves?’: Émigrés, Allies, and the Reconstruction of Germany
Émigré organizations: The ‘Free Germany’ movement’
Plans for the reconstruction of Germany
Allied policy
(i) Britain and the United States and German émigrés
(ii) France and German émigrés
(iii) The Soviet Union and German émigrés
Conclusions
4: ‘Now, back to our Virchow’: German Medical and Political Traditions in Post-war Berlin
The Magistrat of Berlin and the Berlin City Health Department
(i) Origins and Composition
(ii) ‘The apolitical physician’
(iii) Rudolf Virchow (version 1)
The Central Health Administration of the Soviet Zone (ZVG)
(i) Origins and Composition
(ii) The political physician
(iii) Rudolf Virchow (version 2)
Conclusions
Part II: Compromises and Confrontations, 1945–1949
5: Public Health Work in the British Occupation Zone
Plans
Compromises
Confrontations
6: Public Health Work in the American Occupation Zone
Plans
Compromises
Confrontations
7: Public Health Work in the Soviet Occupation Zone
Plans
Compromises
Confrontations
8: The Forgotten Zone: Public Health Work in the French Occupation Zone
Plans
Compromises
Confrontations
9: Some Conclusions
Comparisons
Public health in occupied Germany
Bibliography
1. Main Archives
2. Selection of Published Sources
Index
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