Civil Affairs in Antwerp 1944-1945: Critical Infrastructure and Civil Defense

Q2 Social Sciences

Journal of Strategic Security Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI:10.5038/1944-0472.16.3.2145

Louise Tumchewics

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Abstract

In the autumn of 1944, as the Allies moved through France and towards Germany, the city of Antwerp became a key logistics hub owing to its large, and for the time, modern port facilities. Owing to its strategic significance, it became a prime target for German V-1 and V-2 rocket strikes. In order to keep the population in the bombarded city, 1st Canadian Army Civil Affairs took on the challenge of Civil Defense to keep the population safe and the port operational.

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安特卫普的民事事务1944-1945:关键基础设施和民防

1944年秋，当盟军穿过法国向德国进军时，安特卫普市因其庞大的现代化港口设施而成为一个重要的物流中心。由于其战略意义，它成为德国V-1和V-2火箭攻击的主要目标。为了保护被轰炸城市的居民，加拿大第一民防部队承担了民防的挑战，以保证居民的安全和港口的运作。

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Journal of Strategic Security Social Sciences-Law

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1.30

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12 weeks

期刊介绍： The Journal of Strategic Security (JSS) is a double-blind peer-reviewed professional journal published quarterly by Henley-Putnam School of Strategic Security with support from the University of South Florida Libraries. The Journal provides a multi-disciplinary forum for scholarship and discussion of strategic security issues drawing from the fields of global security, international relations, intelligence, terrorism and counterterrorism studies, among others. JSS is indexed in SCOPUS, the Directory of Open Access Journals, and several EBSCOhost and ProQuest databases.