* 1945 – World War II: Germany begins the evacuation of 1. 8 million people from East Prussia, a task which will take nearly two months.

The northern half of the German Province of East Prussia, occupied by the Red Army during its East Prussian Offensive followed by its evacuation in winter 1945, had already been incorporated into the Soviet territory by amendment of the country's constitution.

He passed on the request to Sir Charles Portal, the Chief of the Air Staff, who answered that " We should use available effort in one big attack on Berlin and attacks on Dresden, Leipzig, and Chemnitz, or any other cities where a severe blitz will not only cause confusion in the evacuation from the East, but will also hamper the movement of troops from the West ".

Gauleiter Erich Koch protracted the evacuation of the German civilian population until the Eastern Front approached the East Prussian border in 1944.

In response to this threat the government of Joseph Stalin ordered the evacuation of strategically crucial industrial centers to the East.

Captain William Tennant — in charge of the evacuation — decided to use the beaches and the East Mole to land the ships.

As bicycles are not allowed in tunnel sections ( even if no station is in that section ) as they would hinder evacuation, they are limited to High Barnet – East Finchley, the Mill Hill East branch, Edgware – Colindale and Hendon – Golders Green.

On January 24, 2011, an overpressurized Dominion East Ohio natural gas pipeline caused devices in at least least 17 dwellings to explode, causing the structures to burn and leading to a mass evacuation.

On 4 May, Freyberg sent a message to the British commander in the Middle East, General Archibald Wavell, requesting the evacuation of about 10, 000 personnel who did not have weapons and had " little or no employment other than getting into trouble with the civil population ".

After the allied evacuation in February 1943 the East Timorese continued fighting the Japanese, with comparatively little collaboration with the enemy taking place.

Brereton's evacuation to India on 23 February 1942 effectively ended existence of the Far East Air Force, which had been re-designated " 5 Air Force " on 5 February.

JIPF's platform include demands for a full Israeli withdrawal, including the evacuation of the Jewish civilian population, from all territories that came under Israeli military control as a result of the Six-Day War, the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state with East Jerusalem as capital and a " solution " to the issue of the Palestinian refugees.

The entire East Wall is not groomed and should not be taken lightly since evacuation by the ski patrol in this area is a difficult undertaking.

On 14 October 1941, Rittmeister Graf Solms-Laubach commanded the evacuation of 27 crates to Königsberg in East Prussia, for storage and display in the town's castle.

Most of its population tried to escape to the west throughout the evacuation of East Prussia.

The German population fled during the evacuation of East Prussia or was subsequently expelled by force.

After the evacuation of Gallipoli, the division returned to Egypt, and was renamed the 42nd ( East Lancashire ) Division.

JIPF's platform include demands for a full Israeli withdrawal, including the evacuation of the Jewish civilian population, from all territories that came under Israeli military control as a result of the Six-Day War, the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state with East Jerusalem as capital and a " solution " to the issue of the Palestinian refugees.

Water reached areas over two miles ( 3 km ) away from the Red River, necessitating the evacuation of all of East Grand Forks and 75 % of Grand Forks.

Because all transportation was cut off between the two cities ( and for many miles, the two states ), East Grand Forks residents were evacuated to nearby Crookston, namely to the University of Minnesota Crookston, while residents of Grand Forks, who were given mandatory evacuation orders on April 18, went to Grand Forks Air Force Base ( residents stayed in airplane hangars containing more than 3, 000 cots ).

Nida became nearly uninhabited, like all of the Curonian Spit, as a result of the evacuation of East Prussia during World War II.

The Spaniards demanded Dutch evacuation of the West and East Indies ; lifting of the restrictions on Antwerp's trade by way of the Scheldt ; and toleration of the public practice of the Catholic religion in the Republic.

It took the words " extermination ", " killing ", " liquidation "; and substituted for them, the euphemisms: " final solution ", " evacuation ", " special treatment ", " resettlement ", " labour in the East ".

Following French Emperor Napoleon I's victory at the Battle of Jena and the ensuing evacuation by Prussia of her Polish provinces, in November 1806 Poniatowski was asked by the Prussian king Frederick William III to assume the governorship of Warsaw, to which he agreed ; he also assumed the command of the city's municipal guard and citizen militia forces organized by local residents.

Despite having detailed evacuation plans for some areas, authorities of the Third Reich, including the Gauleiter of East Prussia, Erich Koch, delayed action until January 20, when it was too late for an orderly evacuation, and the civil services were eventually overwhelmed by the huge number of those wishing to evacuate.

The evacuation plans for parts of East Prussia were ready in the second half of 1944.

Initially, Erich Koch, the Gauleiter of East Prussia, did not agree to the evacuation of the civilians ( until 20 January 1945 ), and ordered that civilians trying to flee the region without permission would be instantly shot.

Excluding Plautdietsch, Low Prussian can be considered moribund due to the evacuation and forced expulsion of Germans from East Prussia after World War II.

The old town center was almost completely destroyed, and the German population was removed during the evacuation of East Prussia or expelled.

The German population that had not already fled during the evacuation of East Prussia was subsequently expelled, the last transport leaving on November 23, 1947.

In Australian military terminology, a medevac refers to the evacuation of an entire section for medical reasons while a casevac refers to the evacuation of a small number of troops, usually just one.

Operation Moses (, Mivtza Moshe ) refers to the covert evacuation of Ethiopian Jews ( known as the " Beta Israel " community or " Falashas ")

In Australian military terminology, a CASEVAC refers to the evacuation of a small number of troops, usually just one.

It refers to the land campaign starting with the invasion of France in May 1940 and ending with the evacuation from Dunkirk.

Dilation and evacuation ( also sometimes called dilation and extraction ) literally refers to the dilation of the cervix and surgical evacuation of the contents of the uterus.

Heydrich, in opening the Conference, followed the reasoning and even the phraseology of the order issued earlier by Goering which authorized the Final Solution as `` a complement to '' previous `` solutions '' for eliminating the Jews from German living space through violence, economic strangulation, forced emigration, and evacuation.

In World War II after initial deployment to France as part of the BEF, the regiment lost two battalions at the Defence of Calais ( 2nd Bn KRRC and 1st Bn the Queen Victoria's Rifles ( TA )) where a Green Jacket Brigade held up the German advance to enable the evacuation of the allied armies at Dunkirk.

* 1943 – World War II: The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of the Kuban River bridgehead ( Taman Peninsula ) in southern Russia and moves across the Strait of Kerch to the Crimea.

The 112th captured Schmidt on 3 November, cutting the German supply route to Monschau, but no American supply, reinforcement or evacuation was possible, as the Kall Trail was blocked.

In 1941 during World War II the ANZAC forces delayed the invading German forces in the area enough to allow the evacuation of the British expeditionary force to Crete.

Most of the German inhabitants who had remained in the city after the evacuation before the advancing Red Army were soon to be expelled, and soon eastern settlers from Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union would arrive.

The main factory PZL WP-1 in Warsaw was destroyed during World War II, mostly during the German evacuation in 1944.

The Dunkirk evacuation, commonly known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, code-named Operation Dynamo by the British, was the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and the early hours of 4 June 1940, because the British, French, and Belgian troops were cut off by the German army during the Battle of Dunkirk in the Second World War.

Initial plans called for the recovery of 30, 000 men from the British Expeditionary Force ( BEF ) within two days, at which time it was expected that German troops would be able to block further evacuation.

The next day Guzzoni learned of the German planning for evacuation and reported to Rome of his conviction of their intentions.

The German and Italian evacuation schemes proved highly successful.

On 22 May 1945, he transmitted to US Pentagon headquarters Colonel Joel Holmes's telegram urging the evacuation of German scientists, and their families, as most " important for Pacific war " effort.

Fearing that the Soviet takeover would limit U. S. ability to exploit German scientific and technical expertise, and not wanting the Soviet Union to benefit from said expertise, the U. S. instigated an " evacuation operation " of scientific personnel from Saxony and Thuringia, issuing orders such as:

In addition, 2 – 2. 5 million died due to badly-organised German evacuation, bombing, sinking of refugee ships, hunger and deprivation during long marches in bitter cold, in the expulsion trains, in resettlement camps, or murdered by rampaging troops or populace.

In addition to the numbers above, forty soldiers are on permanent stand-by for medical evacuation operations around the world in assistance of ongoing German or coalition operations ( STRATAIRMEDEVAC ).

A decision was made to deploy the commandos from Layforce to the island to carry out raids on the German lines of communications with a view to either turning back the invasion or enabling an evacuation to take place.

There is much debate over whether German Panzer divisions could have defeated these soldiers alone if they had pressed forward, since the tank divisions were overextended and would require extensive refitting ; in any case, Hitler elected to follow the advice of the leader of German air forces Hermann Göring and allow the Luftwaffe alone to attack the Allied forces until German infantry was able to advance, giving the British a window for the evacuation.

Just before the liberation many German prisoners were evacuated, but 2000 of these Germans died during the evacuation transport.

The German population remaining after the evacuation was largely expelled after the war and replaced with Poles.