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What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

Article about: What's wrong doctor? TABSTABS collection On the back of this excellent portrait is written: Siedlice Kriegslazarett. January 1944 At times like these, it is when societies understand the tru

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    But the story was very different when the invasion of the USSR occurred in June 1941.
    The country turned out to be hellishly hot in the months of June to August and the dust covered absolutely everything: vehicles, weapons, uniforms, and bodies.

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    After the grueling marches the men ended up covered in dust, dirt and sweat

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.
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    The war was going to be a very dirty thing (in every way) on the eastern front.

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    But just as it happened in 1940, men and animals could wash and refresh in the countless rivers that appeared as they advanced east and the nights were warm and the soldiers could sleep outdoors where the units camped, without the need to have a roof over their heads.

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    Morning toilet

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    A bath in the river

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    Put on the uniform after washing with fresh water

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    Do the laundry and hang the clothes out to dry.

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    And you can still sleep in the open with a blanket

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

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    For a soldier, washing with soap and water, shaving and cutting their hair regularly, and being able to wash their underwear and have a change of clean clothes, were, together with adequate food, a guarantee to stay healthy.

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    Short hair was not a whim. it was a matter of personal hygiene.

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    This soldier has left us his toiletry bag open: razor, brush and shaving soap, toothbrush, soap, and a small mirror.

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.
    Last edited by TabsTabs1964; 01-01-2023 at 05:21 PM.

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    But everything began to change when at the end of September the east wind began to bring the aroma of Russian autumn. With it would come rain and mud first, and later snow and cold. Then the soldiers would have to start looking for refuge to spend the nights.

    There were only two accommodation possibilities for the German troops. On the one hand the huts and houses of the peasants of the occupied populations and, on the other, the bunkers, shelters and positions built by the soldiers.

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.
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    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    With the last heat of summer the houses and cabins of the peasants, still offered a friendly perspective for the soldier, they could wash themselves with the water from their well and wash clothes

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    Depending on the stability of the different fronts, in the winters from 1941 to 1944 there were bunkers and shelters that were very well equipped and with certain comforts, although in general they all had poor ventilation (both to protect themselves from the cold, as well as the fact of being totally or partially under ground, to protect its occupants from Russian artillery)

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    In both places the same situation would occur: many people together in very little space. Cold outside and increasingly limited possibilities for body cleaning and washing clothes.

    As we already imagined this would end up causing a lot of discomfort first and later a serious health problem for an entire army

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    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    These two German officers think that they are finally going to be able to sleep quietly for a while inside this house of some Ukrainian peasants: clean straw and some blankets.

    As what happened to the soldiers who made these two big graffiti on the walls of the house where they had the bad luck to spend a night, and who perhaps suffered one of the most unpleasant experiences of the war.

    Look at what they very visibly warn their comrades:

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    Watch out! A million bedbugs

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    German soldiers. DO NOT spend the night here, otherwise the bed bugs will kill you!

    We will continue talking about bedbugs and, above all, lice. The torture of the soldier.

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    It is interesting at this time to make two quotes from David Stahel. One from his book "Operation Typhoon" and the other from "The Battle for Moscow"

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    Operation Typhoon.- “The homes of the Russian peasants also posed new problems for the soldiers. When the Germans routinely inhabited the peasant houses, a new and life-threatening plague was introduced into the German army. As the soldier Helmut Güther wrote: it was not a secret that we were infested with lice since the cold forced us to go inside buildings, as it was no longer possible to sleep in the open.
    On October 15, 1941, soldier Erich Hager wrote in his diary: lice, bugs, fleas, their armies! And helmut Pabts wrote: I was alone in a house, I lit a match and the bugs fell from the ceiling. Regiments of insects crawled along the walls and floor. Next to the fire was quite black, a hideous living carpet. As I stood still I could hear the constant murmur.

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    The Battle for Moscow.- “The ransacked houses and Russian clothes were generally infested with lice and the human body is the only vector of Rickettsia prowazekii, a bacterium that causes epidemic typhus. Lice had been a growing problem for Germans since September, when they first started talking about peasant houses, but typhus was starting to appear now and would soon reach epidemic proportions, producing some 10,000 deaths among Germans, mainly in 1942. Soldiers were frequently warned of the importance of keeping lice free, but in the cold they had little scope to protect themselves from infection or to get rid of parasites without changing clothes. One soldier wrote: Although we were freezing, we were still providing enough heat to the lice that fed on us. We were simply tormented by those bugs. Some soldiers insulted the civilian population by calling it lice machines and blaming it for their homes being infested. However, the countrymen's houses were better than freezing. Soldiers wrote to their homes asking their families to send them ointments or lotions that could rid them of lice. The problem was that many men did not have a change of clothes to change while cleaning their uniforms, so the lice that remained on the body guaranteed a rapid infestation.
    So lice were the vector for Rickettsia prowazekii, the bacterium that causes epidemic typhus; but they also transmitted another bacterium, Rickettsia quintana, which caused trench fever and recurrent fever. In addition, mites, ticks and fleas transmitted spotted fever.

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    As we can see, the forced lack of hygiene in the winter caused a very serious health problem and an overload of work for the Ostheer's medical services.

    This would mean greater saturation in field hospitals and, ultimately, thousands of casualties of combatants.

    These were the new enemies of the Ostheer's men:

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    The louse that was torture for the victim and also the vector for the attack ...

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    Of the Rickettsia Prowazekii, the bacteria that caused typhus and many times death....

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    So in addition to having Panzerjäger and Gebirsjägers there began to be hundreds of thousands of Läusejäger: lice hunters on the eastern front....

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    Läuse Jagd in Poltawa

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    Läuse Jagd near Stalino

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    Everyone was hunting, sooner or later.

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.
    Last edited by TabsTabs1964; 04-10-2022 at 10:55 AM.

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    So the Wehrmacht had to first create and later reinforce an extensive network of disinfection and delousing stations for the troops. The truth is that it was never enough to eliminate the plague, but it did manage to reduce its severity, at least during the warm months of 1942 and 1943.

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    There were small facilities relatively close to the front and others of much greater capacity in major towns and occupied cities.

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

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    Some were next to the hospitals and many near the train stations, which was the place of greatest transit for the troops. In cities like Smolensk or other large logistics and health centers in occupied Russia there were more than one of these delousing stations or "entlausungsanstalt"

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    I have not been able to identify in which city this delousing unit was located, in which I have found these photographs of two different groups of soldiers who were portrayed in front of it.

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

    What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.
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    In this slightly unfocused photograph of my collection, we see this veteran probably after having bathed and disinfected

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