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...
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The evacuation of civilians in Britain during the Second World War was designed to defend individuals, especially children, from the risks associated with...
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1945 as a result of air raids on Japan by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) during World War II. These evacuations started in December 1943 as...
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Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945). Strategic bombing during World War II in Europe began on 1 September 1939 when Germany invaded Poland and the Luftwaffe (German Air...
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The term "home front" covers the activities of the civilians in a nation at war. World War II was a total war; homeland military production became vital...
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27% of Germans believed that the Soviet Union contributed most to the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. In contrast, the survey conducted in May...
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instances of evacuations (including both emergency evacuations and forced migrations) occurred during and after World War II. World War II evacuation and expulsion...
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In World War II, many governments, organizations and individuals collaborated with the Axis powers, "out of conviction, desperation, or under coercion...
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of Norway by Nazi Germany during the Second World War began on 9 April 1940 after Operation Weserübung. Conventional armed resistance to the German invasion...
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Almost every country in the world participated in World War II. Most were neutral at the beginning, but only a relative few nations remained neutral to...
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The American Theater was a theater of operations during World War II including all continental American territory, and extending 200 miles (320 km) into...
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At the outset of World War II in September 1939, Denmark declared itself neutral, but that neutrality did not prevent Nazi Germany from occupying the country...
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The German camps in occupied Poland during World War II were built by the Nazis between 1939 and 1945 throughout the territory of the Polish Republic...
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This is a list of war crimes committed during World War II. The Axis powers (Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan) were some of the most systematic...
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Mass evacuation, forced displacement, expulsion, and deportation of millions of people took place across most countries involved in World War II. The...
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During World War II, the Allies committed legally proven war crimes and violations of the laws of war against either civilians or military personnel of...
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World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history. An estimated total of 70–85 million people perished, or about 3% of the estimated global population...
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Juliana and her children sought refuge in Ottawa, Canada until after the war. German occupation lasted in some areas until the German surrender in May 1945....
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expulsion of Germans from Poland was the largest of a series of flights and expulsions of Germans in Europe during and after World War II. The German population...
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Reich, ended in May 1945, after only 12 years, when the Allies defeated Germany and entered the capital, Berlin, ending World War II in Europe. After...
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of mass evacuations includes emergency evacuations of a large number of people in a short period of time. An emergency evacuation is the movement of persons...
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The history of Canada during World War II begins with the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939. While the Canadian Armed Forces were eventually...
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The German occupation of Luxembourg in World War II began in May 1940 after the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg was invaded by Nazi Germany. Although Luxembourg...
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The final battles of the European theatre of World War II continued after the definitive surrender of Nazi Germany to the Allies, signed by Field marshal...
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of Poland from 1939 to 1945 encompasses primarily the period from the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union to the end of World War...
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During World War II, the Crimean Peninsula was subject to military administration by Nazi Germany following the success of the Crimean campaign. Officially...
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World War I Ministry of Information for the duration of World War II to generate propaganda to influence the population towards support for the war effort...
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government several times during the 20th century, during and immediately after a war. At the start of the Second World War in 1939, the United Kingdom...
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possible war crimes. Several decomposed babies were found in the ICU of Al-Nasr Children's Hospital in northern Gaza, two weeks after its forced evacuation. US...
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is a Timeline of the United Kingdom home front during World War II covering Britain 1939–45. For a narrative history and bibliography of the home front...
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