I have been learning recently about the Nazi “obsession” with public health
The Nazis conducted the first government anti-smoking, diet recommendations, and “greening” campaigns for workspaces and factories. They were also active promoters of vaccinations, and conducted extensive research into modifying humans to improve useful traits for the nation and collective. We are all aware of their view of eugenics. Hence the large amount of medical experimentation done at concentration camps.
They had what is now a very secular-humanist, atheistic, and modernist, utilitarian view of human life the face of science, and believed that science, combined with the power of the state could greatly improve the health and genetics of the population.
They were also active promoters of vaccinations, and conducted extensive research into modifying humans to improve useful traits for the nation and collective.
That “tradition” continued with the East Germans and their Olympic athletes.