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Evacuation in the Soviet Union was the mass migration of western Soviet citizens and its industries eastward as a result of Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of Russia launched by Nazi Germany in June 1941 as part of World War II. Nearly sixteen million Soviet civilians and over 1,500 large factories were moved to areas in the middle or ...
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 Messina to Italy, 1943; Operation Hannibal, German evacuation of the Wehrmacht from East Prussia in advance of the Red Army, 1945; Evacuation ...
In total, Romanian and German convoys evacuated over 113,000 Axis troops from the Crimea, most of them (over 63,000) during the first phase of the evacuation (15–25 April). No Romanian Navy warships were lost during the evacuation, however the destroyer Regele Ferdinand came close to being sunk. She was struck by a large aerial bomb, which ...
Soviet passenger ship Iosif Stalin, used for evacuation of troops from Hanko in November 1941, was damaged by a mine on 3 December 1941 and captured by the Germans. The Battle of Hanko (also known as the Hanko front or the siege of Hanko ) was a lengthy series of small battles fought on Hanko Peninsula during the Continuation War between ...
Prague Offensive (1945) — Soviet offensive in final stages of World War II; Ring (1943) — Destruction of the encircled army at Stalingrad. Samland (1945) — capture of Königsberg. Saturn (1942) — Proposed major attack following the Stalingrad encirclement; revised to Little Saturn.
Operation Barbarossa surprised the NKVD, whose jails and prisons in territories annexed by the Soviet Union in the aftermath of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact were crowded with political prisoners. In occupied eastern Poland, the NKVD was given responsibility for liquidating or evacuating over 140,000 prisoners (NKVD evacuation order No. 00803).
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 ...
The Battle of Moscow was a military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting on a 600 km (370 mi) sector of the Eastern Front during World War II, between October 1941 and January 1942. The Soviet defensive effort frustrated Hitler's attack on Moscow, the capital and largest city of the Soviet Union.