Table of Contents

1: Introduction: Public Health in Occupied Germany
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 Returning Émigrés and the Reconstruction of Germany
4: 'Now, back to our Virchow!': German Medical and Political Traditions after 1945
PART II: COMPROMISES AND CONFRONTATIONS, 1945-1949
Introduction to Part II
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
8: The Forgotten Zone: Public Health Work in the French Occupation Zone
9: Public Health in Occupied Germany: Some Conclusions
Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

Open access funded by the Wellcome Trust

About the Author

Jessica Reinisch grew up in Berlin and lives in London. She teaches and researches at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Reviews

Reinisch has written a fascinating study ... no one writing on early postwar Germany can afford to miss it.
*Martijn Lak, German History*

this book represents a necessary contribution to comparative work on the occupation of Germany.
*Rebecca Boehling, American Historical Review*

Jessica Reinisch has written an excellent book, touching on both the administration of post-1945 Germany and post-war public health care. She deals with general conditions of health care for the defeated country's population, including many non-Germans such as displaced persons (DPs) and Eastern European Jews. Her depictions of overall conditions are interspersed with those of particular situations governed by individual victor powers: the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union. Hence she provides a five-dimensional view.
*Michael H. Kater, English Historical Review*

Perils of Peace is a fascinating contribution determined by a broad range of sources that makes it profitable reading for historians of medicine and historians of German occupation alike.
*Anita Winkler, Social History of Medicine*

[A] meticulous, archivally based comparative analysis of their evolution from wartime planning to postwar implementation throughout the occupation period, in all four occupation zones.
*Pertti Ahonen, Journal of Modern History*