Overseas Units and Family

[Legbreaker]

I feel it needs to be stressed once again it appears Germany went it alone in both V1.0 and 2.0 timelines. There's even references of other member states debating if they should be involved or not.

The main difference between the timelines (regarding the commencement of the European hostilities) is in V1.0 Germany moved on the 7th of October, while in 2.0 they moved much earlier on the 27th of July.

In both timelines, the very first elements from mainland US did not even board aircraft until the 21st of October 1996.

The British moved earlier, with the first units arriving (probably by ship, making use of the channel ro-ro ferries) on the 14th of October. The channel tunnel could also have been used, but once France decided not to join in, this becomes very unlikely.

No non-German unit breached Pact borders until the 2nd of December, nearly 2 months after the Germans in V1.0 and 4 1/2 months in 2.0.

During this flurry of activity with everyone concentrating on getting combat units into the country, equiped from pre-positioned stores and organised ready for combat, who was left to co-ordinate civilian evacuation?

I believe this situation is exactly what Paul was refering to - the priority was, and should be, getting troops into battle, not clearing out civilians.

This is not to say people wouldn't try to get out on their own, but aren't there travel restrictions placed on civilians in this event so they don't clog up the roadways and hamper military deployment?