List of World War II evacuations
Several instances of evacuations (including both emergency evacuations and forced migrations) occurred during and after World War II.
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Forced Migrations
- World War II evacuation and expulsion, an overview of the major forced migrations
- Forced migration of Poles, Ukrainians, Belorussians, and Russians to Germany as forced labour
- Forced migration of Jews to Nazi concentration camps in German occupied lands
- Expulsion of Germans after World War II from areas occupied by the Soviet Army
- Evacuation of East Prussia
- Japanese American internment
- NKVD prisoner massacres
Civilian emergency evacuations
- Evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II, the emergency evacuation of children from British urban areas during the Battle of Britain
- Evacuation of population in the Western USSR in the wake of Operation Barbarossa
- Evacuation of Finnish Karelia
- Finnish war children
- Evacuations of civilians in Japan during World War II
Military evacuations
- Operation Dynamo, British evacuation of Dunkirk, France, 1940
- Operation Ariel, British evacuation of Western France, 1940
- Operation Cycle, British evacuation of Le Havre, France, 1940
- Operation Alphabet, British evacuation of Norway, 1940
- Evacuation for Odessa during the Siege of Odessa
- Evacuation from Crimea during the Crimea Campaign
- Evacuations during the Siege of Leningrad
- Operation Hannibal, German evacuation of East Prussia in advance of the Soviet Army, 1945
- Evacuation of Tallinn
- Allied invasion of Sicily, Axis evacuation order over the Strait of Messina to Italy, 1943
Industrial evacuations
- Evacuation of industries from western USSR to the Urals
- Evacuation of industries from western USSR to Central Asia
- Evacuation of industries from western USSR to Kazakhstan
- Evacuation of industries from western USSR to the Caucasus
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