Saunas and Lice in Lithuania in 1941–1944
Saunas and Lice in Lithuania in 1941–1944

Summary/Abstract: German officials viewed the prevention of typhus, both in Lithuania and in other occupied territories, as one of the key sanitary tasks in protecting the Wehrmacht. As a result, German officials and Lithuanian medics took various measures to prevent the disease’s spread, including the use of the saunas. The article reveals the efforts to expand the sauna network under German occupation. On the other hand, these attempts to change the population’s everyday habits by force in the interest of stopping the spread of epidemics apparently had no deeper effect on the culture of cleanliness in Lithuania.

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