Paul Julian Weindling, Weindling Paul Epidemics and Genocide in Eastern Europe, 1890-1945 English · Hardback

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Zusatztext Dense and academic but at the same time stimulating ... a compelling work. Klappentext How did typhus come to be viewed as a "Jewish disease" and what was the connection between the anti-typhus measures during the First World War and the Nazi gas chambers and other genocidal medical practices in the Second World War? This powerful book provides valuable new insight into the history of German medicine in its reaction to the international fight against typhus and the perceived threat of epidemics from the East in the early part of the twentieth century.Professor Weindling examines how German bacteriology became increasingly racialised, and how it sought to eradicate the disease by eradication of the perceived carriers. Delousing became a key feature of Nazi preventive medicine during the Holocaust, and gassing a favoured means of eradication oftyphus. Zusammenfassung In this study the author draws upon archival research to offer an insight into the history of German medicine. He explains why typhus became viewed so quickly as a "Jewish disease" and what the connection was between the anti-typhus measures of World War I and the Nazi gas chambers of World War II.