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  2. World War II evacuation and expulsion - Wikipedia

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    Following the invasion of Poland in September 1939 which marked the beginning of World War II, the campaign of ethnic "cleansing" became the goal of military operations for the first time since the end of World War I. After the end of the war, between 13.5 and 16.5 million German-speakers lost their homes in formerly German lands and all over ...

  3. List of World War II evacuations - Wikipedia

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    World War II evacuation and expulsion, an overview of the major forced migrations Forced migration of Poles, Ukrainians, Belarusians, and Russians to Germany as forced labour; Forced migration of Jews to Nazi concentration camps in the General Government. Expulsion of Germans after World War II from areas occupied by the Red Army; Evacuation of ...

  4. Children's Overseas Reception Board - Wikipedia

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    The CORB evacuated 2,664 British children from England, so that they would escape the imminent threat of German invasion and the risk of enemy bombing in World War II. This was during a critical period in British history, between July and September 1940, when the Battle of Britain was raging, and German invasion forces were being amassed across ...

  5. Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950) - Wikipedia

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    During the later stages of World War II and the post-war period, Reichsdeutsche (German citizens) and Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans living outside the Nazi state) fled and were expelled from various Eastern and Central European countries, including Czechoslovakia, and from the former German provinces of Lower and Upper Silesia, East Prussia, and the eastern parts of Brandenburg and Pomerania ...

  6. Operation Astonia - Wikipedia

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    The Transportation Corps: Operations Overseas (PDF). United States Army In World War II – The Technical Services. Washington, DC: Center of Military History, United States Army. OCLC 867377092; Copp, Terry (2006). Cinderella Army: The Canadians in Northwest Europe, 1944–1945. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-3925-5.

  7. List of mass evacuations - Wikipedia

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    This is the second largest evacuation in U.S. history, and the third-largest peacetime evacuation in modern times. July to August 2006 – The evacuation of nearly 15,000 American citizens from Lebanon during July and August 2006 during the 2006 Lebanon War was one of the largest overseas evacuations of American citizens in recent history.

  8. Canada in World War II - Wikipedia

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    The history of Canada during World War II begins with the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939. While the Canadian Armed Forces were eventually active in nearly every theatre of war , most combat was centred in Italy , [ 1 ] Northwestern Europe, [ 2 ] and the North Atlantic.

  9. Escape and evasion map - Wikipedia

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    Cloth Maps of World War 2, John G. Doll, Western Association of Map Libraries, Vol 20, No.1, Nov 1988, pp24–35. US Navy Handkerchief Charts of World War 2, John G. Doll, UNKNOWN PUB, pp 190–192. The Making of Military Maps, William H. Nicholas, National Geographic, Jun 1943, pp764–778.

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