Epidemic Control in Auschwitz

We shall use the technical terms established in the 1939 German Army Regulations (Heeresdienstvorschrift 194),127 since these determined how the personnel, i.e., the physicians and those who disinfected the camps, were to proceed [Pg.65]

Disinfection means [...] destroying the disease-(epidemic-)causing [Pg.65]

Disinfestation means ridding rooms, objects and people of vermin (small life forms) that can transmit pathogens, cause economic damage or annoy man. [Pg.66]

The regulation quoted lists all known physical and chemical means of disinfection and disinfestation. Similarly, a work guideline was released in 1943 by the Sanitation Institute of the Waffen-SS Ent- [Pg.66]

131 Der praktische Desinfektor, Heft 2, Verlag Erich Deleiter, Berlin 1941, inside cover cf. F.P. Berg, Typhus and the Jews , JHR, 8(4) (1988), pp. 433-481 (online [Pg.66]

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