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  2. Evacuation of East Prussia - Wikipedia

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    German civilian population and military personnel were evacuated from East Prussia between 20 January and March 1945. The evacuation was initially organized and carried out by state authorities but quickly turned into a chaotic flight from the Red Army.

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

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    From the Baltic coast, many soldiers and civilians were evacuated by ship in the course of Operation Hannibal. [79] [83] Between 23 January and 5 May 1945, up to 250,000 Germans, primarily from East Prussia, Pomerania, and the Baltic states, were evacuated to Nazi-occupied Denmark, [88] [89] based on an order issued by Hitler on 4 February 1945 ...

  4. Flight and expulsion of Germans from Poland during and after ...

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    Overy cites approximate totals of those evacuated, migrated, or expelled between 1944 and 1950 from East Prussia: 1.4 million to Western Germany, 609,000 to Eastern Germany; from West Prussia: 230,000 to Western Germany, 61,000 to Eastern Germany; from the former German area East of the Oder-Neisse: 3.2 million to Western Germany, 2 million to ...

  5. German evacuation from Central and Eastern Europe - Wikipedia

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    On October 7, 1944, that area was the only part of East Prussia completely evacuated. [37] On October 16, 1944, the Red Army reached German territory for the first time in World War II in the southern part of East Prussia near Gumbinnen, encountering German civilians and committing the Nemmersdorf massacre.

  6. List of mass evacuations - Wikipedia

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    July 2005 – 20,000 people were evacuated from the city of Birmingham in the United Kingdom after a security alert due to a bomb scare. [ 19 ] August 2005 – Hurricane Katrina led to a mass evacuation of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana , with approximately 80% of the city's population of 484,000 evacuating before the storm struck.

  7. Operation Hannibal - Wikipedia

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    Evacuation boats crossing the Baltic Sea. Operation Hannibal was a German naval operation involving the evacuation by sea of German troops and civilians from the Courland Pocket, East Prussia, West Prussia and Pomerania from mid-January to May 1945 as the Red Army advanced during the East Prussian and East Pomeranian Offensives and subsidiary operations.

  8. Vistula–Oder offensive - Wikipedia

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    The only major German response came on 15 January, when Hitler (against the advice of Guderian) ordered the Panzerkorps Großdeutschland of Dietrich von Saucken from East Prussia to cover the breach made in the sector of the 4th Panzer Army, but the advance of Zhukov's forces forced it to detrain at Łódź without even reaching its objective ...

  9. East Prussia - Wikipedia

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    East Prussia [Note 1] was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1772 to 1829 and again from 1878 (with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 1871); following World War I it formed part of the Weimar Republic's Free State of Prussia, until 1945. Its capital city was Königsberg (present-day Kaliningrad).