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

During the First World War, delousing became routine for soldiers and civilians following the recent discovery that the louse carried typhus germs. But how did

Paul Weindling examines the history of German medicine in the first and second World War periods. He explores the German response to typhus and the manner in wh

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