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