Escape From the Cold War: Planning Civilian Evacuation from British-Occupied Germany, 1946-55
Escape From the Cold War: Planning Civilian Evacuation from British-Occupied Germany, 1946-55
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逃离冷战：计划从英国占领的德国撤离平民，1946-55 年
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10.1177/00220094221099851
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发表时间：
2022
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0.7
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Huxford G
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作者：
Huxford G
疏散，无论是想象的还是实际的，都反映了国家战略重点、文化假设和普遍的社会价值观；它们还揭示了国际关系以及各国与国内外公民互动中的实际优势和劣势。但疏散也具有深刻的象征意义，并且植根于更悠久、相互交织的社会和战略历史。本文通过“侠义行动”这个引人注目的案例研究，这是第一个为从冷战初期的德国撤离英国军人家属而设计的计划，通过疏散来揭示 1945 年后英国公民与国家之间关系的变化。该计划和规划不仅揭示了家庭在战后世界中的新重要性，而且揭示了新福利国家中的紧张局势。但更广泛地说，本文认为，英国的冷战计划无论在实践上还是在象征上都与其对帝国终结和第二次世界大战国内后果的反应密切相关。在揭示一项从未使用过的提案、一场从未打过的战争的复杂性时，本文强调了未实现的计划在揭示“意识形态背景”和社会态度方面的更广泛的历史价值。
Evacuations, imagined as well as actual, reflect national strategic preoccupations, cultural assumptions and prevailing social values; they also reveal practical strengths and weaknesses in international relationships and in states’ interactions with their own citizens, at home and abroad. But evacuations are deeply symbolically significant too and grounded in far longer, intertwined social and strategic histories. Using the remarkable case study of Operation Chivalrous, the first plan devised for the evacuation of British military families from early Cold War Germany, this article uses evacuation to throw light on the changed relationship between British citizens and the state after 1945. The plan and planning revealed not only the renewed significance of the family in the post-war world, but also the tensions in the new welfare state. But, more broadly, this article argues that Britain's Cold War planning was closely linked, both practically and symbolically, to its responses to the end of empire and the domestic aftermath of the Second World War. In unpacking the intricacies of a proposal that was never used, for a war that was never fought, this article underlines the wider historical value of unrealised plans in revealing ‘ideational contexts' and social attitudes.