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- In 1946, a Swiss physicians' committee visited southern Germany to review air-raid protection measures and wartime public health care.
- Hans Richard von Fels, a St. Gallen physician, kept a personal diary during the journey, documenting his observations of the German population's physical, mental, and political conditions.
- Von Fels' diary is a significant historical document, serving as one of the rare personal accounts related to public health in post-war Germany.
Article Abstract
In the autumn of 1946, a committee of Swiss physicians toured southern Germany to examine German measures for air-raid protection and to evaluate the country's wartime public health care. One of the participants, the St. Gallen physician Hans Richard von Fels, complemented the committee's official report with a personal diary of the journey. This document includes von Fels' personal observations of the physical, psychic and political state of the German population, the wartime destruction of the cities, and local public health services. This text is an important historical document, partly because it is one of the few "ego-documents" relating to the public health sector in post-war Germany.
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