Several instances of evacuations (including both emergency evacuations and forced migrations) occurred during and after World War II.

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• World War II evacuation and expulsion, an overview of the major forced migrations
  • Forced migration of Poles, Ukrainians, Belarusians, and Russians to Germany as forced labour
  • Forced migration of Jews to Nazi concentration camps in the General Government.
  • Expulsion of Germans after World War II from areas occupied by the Red Army
  • Evacuation of East Prussia
  • Forced internment of Japanese Americans in internment camps, primarily in the western United States.
  • NKVD prisoner massacres

• Evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II, the emergency evacuation of children from British urban areas during the Battle of Britain
• Evacuation of population in the Western Soviet Union in the wake of Operation Barbarossa
• Evacuation of Finnish Karelia
• Finnish war children
• Evacuations of civilians in Japan during World War II

• Operation Dynamo, British evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk, France, 1940^[1]
• Operation Aerial, British evacuation of Allied forces from Western France, 1940^[2]
• Operation Cycle, British evacuation of the Beauman Division of Le Havre, France, 1940^[3]
• Operation Alphabet, British evacuation of Allied forces from Narvik, Norway, 1940
• Evacuations of Commonwealth forces from Greece and Crete during the Battle of Greece, 1941
• 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 Messina to Italy, 1943
• Operation Hannibal, German evacuation of the Wehrmacht from East Prussia in advance of the Red Army, 1945
• Evacuation of Tallinn

• Evacuation of industries from western USSR to the Urals
• Evacuation of industries from western USSR to Central Asia
• Evacuation of industries from western USSR to Kazakhstan
• Evacuation of industries from western USSR to the Caucasus