List of World War II evacuations

Updated on Dec 28, 2023

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Several instances of evacuations (including both emergency evacuations and forced migrations) occurred during and after World War II.

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

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

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

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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