Epidemics and Genocide in Eastern Europe, 1890-1945

by Paul Julian Weindling and Paul Weindling

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 this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198206917
• ISBN13: 9780198206910
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 486 Pages