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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.
Evacuation for Odessa during the Siege of Odessa; Evacuation from Crimea during the Crimea Campaign; Evacuations during the Siege of Leningrad; Operation Ke, Japanese evacuation from Guadalcanal, Jan-Feb 1943; Japanese evacuation from Kiska, July 1943; Allied invasion of Sicily, Axis evacuation order to the Royal Italian Army over the Strait of ...
1941 to 1945: More than 250,000 Serbs were expelled from Croatia and Bosnia by the extreme nationalist Ustaše regime during the Serbian Genocide. [41] 1941 to 1949: During World War II, Japanese-Americans and Japanese-Canadians were interned in camps. 1942: Deportation of the Ingrian Finns from Soviet controlled territory of the Leningrad ...
The Dunkirk evacuation, codenamed Operation Dynamo and also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, or just Dunkirk, was the evacuation of more than 338,000 Allied soldiers during the Second World War from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, in the north of France, between 26 May and 4 June 1940.
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.
Evacuation of Polish National Treasures during World War II; Evacuation of the Gibraltarian civilian population during World War II; Evacuation of the Louvre museum art collection during World War II; Evacuation of the Polish Army from Saint-Jean-de-Luz; Evacuations of children in Germany during World War II
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.
10 February 1945 – Stalag VIII-A at Görlitz was evacuated. 14 February 1945 – Commonwealth and US bomber squadrons attacked Dresden. 19 March 1945 – Hitler issued the Nero Decree. 3 April 1945 – Stalag XIII-D at Nuremberg was evacuated. 6 April 1945 – Stalag XI-B and Stalag 357 at Fallingbostel were evacuated.