https://www.welt.de/geschichte/article228184131/Impfpflicht-Ab-1919-kaempfte-ein-Reichsverband-dagegen.html

In the spring of 1933, opponents of vaccination had hoped to be able to overturn compulsory smallpox vaccinations in view of the fact that those involved in Nazi health policy were partly committed to naturopathy. Instead, at the end of the year, the Reich Ministry of the Interior dissolved all “anti-vaccination and anti-vaccination associations” and banned “any public anti-vaccination activity”.

At the same time, however, there was no general compulsory vaccination for the newly available diphtheria vaccination and, according to Thießen's research, it was not even seriously considered. Ironically, a dictatorship that used the most radical means to protect the “national body” with murder programs such as “euthanization” and forced sterilization of “hereditary patients” renounced new vaccination requirements.

At least as far as the normal “national comrades” were concerned. For Wehrmacht soldiers, however, serial vaccinations, whether for the first time or as a booster, were common. Immunization against diphtheria, scarlet fever and typhoid fever was increased; In contrast, the tuberculosis vaccination offered on a voluntary basis met with little response in the last year of the war.

Things were different after 1945: Many people in bombed-out Germany now felt the need to be vaccinated - against dysentery, typhus and typhoid as well as again against smallpox, because in the second half of the war the mandatory vaccinations were no longer implemented in many cases.

By October 1949 at the latest, “the population was extremely tired of vaccinations”. This was due to the same questions as exactly three quarters of a century earlier, in the debates about compulsory smallpox vaccination: Did the “right to self-determination over one’s own body” take precedence over the “interest of the whole”? Or not right now?