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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Medical Care, Nazism, and the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustPanel Discussion with Leo Eitinger
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Public Health under the Third Reich
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustPhoto of Quarantined Building in the Warsaw Ghetto
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Public Health under the Third Reich
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustPhotograph of "Strength through Joy” Event at Strandbad Wannsee
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Medical Care, Nazism, and the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustPhotograph of German Red Cross Nurse Induction Ceremony
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Public Health under the Third Reich
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustPhotograph of Prisoners Forced to Exercise
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Roma and Sinti in Nazi Germany
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RulePhotograph of Romani Section of Lodz Ghetto
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Public Health under the Third Reich
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustPolice Order on Tuberculosis X-Rays
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Roma and Sinti in Nazi Germany
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RulePostwar Testimony of the Hodoschi Family
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Public Health under the Third Reich
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustPropaganda Poster: “Jews Are Lice: They Cause Typhus”
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The Holocaust in Yugoslavia
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustReport of the Communist Party Committee in the Jewish Camp at Rab
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Experiences of Forced Labor in Wartime Europe
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustReport on the Rühen Home for Children of Forced Laborers
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Medical Care, Nazism, and the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustRequest to Replace Nurse Anna Hölzer
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Post-Holocaust Testimony
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustShoah Outtake with Ruth Elias
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Artists and Visual Culture in Wartime Europe
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustUndated Photos from the Warsaw Ghetto