Nazi policies regarding public health and the medical profession impacted the health and well-being of millions of people with far-reaching consequences that lasted long after the defeat of Nazi Germany. In addition, the Nazi regime's persecution of Jews, political opponents, and other groups created overcrowded, unhygienic conditions in camps and ghettos that established the perfect conditions for epidemics of contagious diseases to flourish.
health & hygiene
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Nazi Ideals and American Society
Americans and the HolocaustLetter from Dr. Harry H. Laughlin to Dr. Carl Schneider
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Displaced Persons and Postwar America
Americans and the HolocaustLetter from Dwight D. Eisenhower to Harry S. Truman, September 18, 1945
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Wartime Correspondence
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Hilda Dajč to Nada Novak
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The Holocaust in Yugoslavia
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Jakob Kajon to the Jewish Community of Zagreb
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Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Europe
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Julius Lewy to "the liberators"
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Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Europe
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Szyja Faktor to His Relatives
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The Holocaust in Yugoslavia
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from the Jewish Administration of the Đakovo Camp
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The Holocaust in Yugoslavia
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from the Jewish Community of Brod na Savi to the Jewish Communities of Zagreb and Sarajevo
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The Holocaust in Yugoslavia
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter of Hinko Gottlieb to the Jewish Community of Zagreb
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Jewish Community Documents
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter of the President of Jewish Community of Split to Colonel Vincenzo Cuiuli
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Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Europe
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetters from Harry Lerner to His Parents
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Experiences of Forced Labor in Wartime Europe
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustMemo on Pregnancies among Forced Laborers
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Medical Care, Nazism, and the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustOral History with Avraham Tory
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Post-Holocaust Testimony
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustOral History with Charlene Schiff
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Medical Care, Nazism, and the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustOral History with Marcelle Duval