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  2. Evacuations of children in Germany during World War II

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    KLV children from Berlin in Glatz during a geography lesson, October 1940. The evacuation of children in Germany during the World War II was designed to save children in Nazi Germany from the risks associated with the aerial bombing of cities, by moving them to areas thought to be less at risk.

  3. Evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II

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    The UK Ministry of Health advertised the evacuation programme through posters, among other means. The poster depicted here was used in the London Underground.. The evacuation of civilians in Britain during the Second World War was designed to defend individuals, especially children, from the risks associated with aerial bombing of cities by moving them to areas thought to be less at risk.

  4. Children's Overseas Reception Board - Wikipedia

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    Children's Overseas Reception Board (CORB) group bound for New Zealand, 1940. The Children's Overseas Reception Board (CORB) was a British government sponsored organisation. [1] 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.

  5. Westward Ho! (1940 film) - Wikipedia

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    Westward Ho! was thus conceived as a way of showing the importance of evacuation, encouraging support for the policy and reassuring parents about the procedures that were in place. [5] Production of the film was finished quickly, with the film receiving its premiere at the Dominion , on Tottenham Court Road , just two weeks after filming had begun.

  6. Evacuation of civilians from the Channel Islands in 1940

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    The evacuation of civilians from the Channel Islands in 1940 was an organised, partial, nautical evacuation of Crown dependencies in the Channel Islands, primarily from Jersey, Guernsey, and Alderney to Great Britain during World War II. The evacuation occurred in phases, starting with school aged children, their teachers, and mother volunteers.

  7. File:Czech Jewish children evacuated via airplane (1939).webm

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    The youngest of these children is only two and a half years old, the eldest one 11 years old. The leave-taking was grievous. Nobody was untouched seeing the tears of the remaining parents who will not see again their children for many long years. Before starting the pilot said: 'Never my life I have had such a responsibility. My Lord -- 30 ...

  8. Category:Evacuations during World War II - Wikipedia

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    Evacuation of the Gibraltarian civilian population during World War II; Evacuation of the Louvre collection during World War II; Evacuation of the Polish Army from Saint-Jean-de-Luz; Evacuations of children in Germany during World War II; Evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II; Evacuations of civilians in Japan during World War II

  9. 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 ...