title: [A Swiss physician's perspective of public health care in the south of Germany, autumn 1946].
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 This text is an important historical document, partly because it is one of the few "ego-documents" relating to the public health sector in post-war Germany.
mesh_terms: D005858:Germany; D049673:History, 20th Century; D008374:Manuscripts, Medical as Topic; D011634:Public Health; D011996:Records; D013557:Switzerland; D014857:Warfare
vernacular_title: Tagebuch Hans Richard von Fels Arzte-Mission nach Süd-Deutschland 25. September bis 5. Oktober 1946.