Chapter 9 Some Conclusions The Public Health Crisis in Occupied Germany

When the war was over 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...

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Main Author: Reinisch, Jessica (auth)
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Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2013
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