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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Public Health under the Third Reich
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust"Born Out of Necessity"
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Family Life During the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust"But Who Are You?"
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Public Health under the Third Reich
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust"Healthy Woman - Healthy Nation"
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Public Health under the Third Reich
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust"Nazis Hit Alcohol, Tobacco"
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Public Health under the Third Reich
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust"One in Eight"
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Public Health under the Third Reich
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust"Sexually Transmitted Disease Is an Obstacle to Marriage"
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Public Health under the Third Reich
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust"The English Disease"
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustAnonymous Diary from the Warsaw Ghetto
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Adolf Guttentag
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Aharon Pick
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Đura Rajs
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Elvira Kohn
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Gendered Experiences of Jewish Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Irene Hauser
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Jacques Berenholc
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Medical Care, Nazism, and the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustDiary of Janusz Korczak
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Mirjam Korber
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Peter Feigl
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Saartje Wijnberg
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Susi Hilsenrath
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American Witnesses and the Third Reich
Americans and the HolocaustEdward R. Murrow Broadcast from Buchenwald, April 15, 1945
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Nazi Ideals and American Society
Americans and the HolocaustEugenics Charts from the Kansas Free Fair
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Experiences of Forced Labor in Wartime Europe
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustFilm of Forced Laborers in Transit
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American Witnesses and the Third Reich
Americans and the HolocaustFilm of General Dwight D. Eisenhower Visiting the Ohrdruf Camp
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Public Health under the Third Reich
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustHitler Youth Training Film
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American Christians, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust
Americans and the HolocaustInterview with Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill
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Experiences of Forced Labor in Wartime Europe
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustLabor Deployment of Soviet Prisoners of War
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The Holocaust in Yugoslavia
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Adolf Renert to the National Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Croatia
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Wartime Correspondence
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Amalie Malsch to Wilhelm Malsch
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Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Europe
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Barbara Falik to the PM Standard
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Wartime Correspondence
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Bukić Pijade to Đ.
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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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Medical Care, Nazism, and the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustOral History with Marcelle Duval
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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
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Post-Holocaust Testimony
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustUSHMM Oral History with Charlene Schiff