After serving in the German army in World War I, he returned to Hamburg and climbed the academic ladder.

After completing his term of apprenticeship, Dürer followed the common German custom of taking Wanderjahre — in effect gap year — in which the apprentice learned skills from artists in other areas ; Dürer was to spend about four years away.

After Heine's German birthplace of Düsseldorf had rejected, allegedly for anti-Semitic motives, a centennial monument to the radical German-Jewish poet ( 1797 – 1856 ), his incensed German-American admirers, including Carl Schurz, started a movement to place one instead in Midtown Manhattan, at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street.

After World War II, the city became divided into East Berlin — the capital of East Germany — and West Berlin, a West German exclave surrounded by the Berlin Wall ( 1961 – 1989 ).

After Germany's failure to destroy the Soviets before the winter of 1941, the strategic failure above the German tactical superiority became apparent.

After the war, Albert Speer pointed out that the German economy achieved greater armaments output, not because of diversions of capacity from civilian to military industry, but through streamlining of the economy.

After the sinking of the RMS Lusitania by a German submarine in May 1915, Lieutenant-Commander Godfrey Herbert, commanding officer of Baralong, was visited by two officers of the Admiralty's Secret Service branch at the naval base at Queenstown, Ireland.

After the collapse of Austria-Hungary, the Hungarian population declined, while the German speaking population was forced or compelled to leave after World War II and similar fate was suffered by the Italian population.

After finishing his studies he went on long educational voyages from 1710 to 1724 through Europe, visiting other German states, England, Holland, Italy, and France, meeting with many famous mathematicians, such as Gottfried Leibniz, Leonhard Euler, and Nicholas I Bernoulli.

After the Pope condemned in Exsurge Domine fifty-two sentences of Luther as heresy, German opinion considered a council the best method to reconcile existing differences.

After the death of Pope Silvester II in 1003, the papacy fell under the influence of the nobility in Latium, and then after 1046, under the influence of the German emperors.

After the Concordat, the German kings never had the same control over the Church as had existed in the time of the Ottonian Dynasty.

After the First World War, the victorious allies divided up the German colonial empire and much of the Ottoman Empire between themselves as League of Nations mandates.

All the presents being placed round the trees …" After her marriage to her German cousin Prince Albert, by 1841 the custom became even more widespread throughout Britain.

* 1943 – World War II – After eight days of brutal house-to-house fighting, the battle of Ortona concludes with the victory of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division over the German 1st Parachute Division and the capture of the Italian town of Ortona.

After the March Revolution of 1848, the German Confederation handed over its authority to the Frankfurt Parliament, and Eastern Prussia joined the Confederation.

After the last German offensive on the Western Front failed in 1918, the war effort was doomed.

" Stabbed at the Front: After 1918 the Myth Was Created That the German Army Only Lost the War Because It Had Been ' Stabbed in the Back ' by Defeatists and Revolutionaries on the Home Front.

After the formation of the German Empire in 1871, German chancellor Otto von Bismarck wanted to portray his nation as a peacemaker and preserver of the European status quo, as well as gain more power for the German Empire and unify Germany.

After the expulsion of most of the German population, the city was repopulated and became known under the Polish name Elbląg.

After liberation from the fascist occupation on 29 November 1944, several Albanian partisan divisions crossed the border into German-occupied Yugoslavia, where they fought alongside Tito's partisans and the Soviet Red Army in a joint campaign which succeeded in driving out the last pockets of German resistance.

After the conclusion of the Treaty of Frankfurt ( 1871 ), he was left in command of the German army of occupation, a position which he held till the fall of the Paris Commune.

After the dissolution of the so-called Stem duchy of Franconia, the Holy Roman Emperors created the Franconian Circle ( German Fränkischer Reichskreis ) in 1500 to embrace the principalities that grew out of the eastern half of the former duchy.

After the capitulation of Axis forces in North Africa Eisenhower oversaw the highly successful invasion of Sicily.

After the Baltic states were forced to accept treaties, Stalin turned his sights on Finland, confident that Finnish capitulation could be attained without great effort.

After accepting the city's capitulation, he massacres the Christian inhabitants.

After the citizens refused to open the gates of Avignon to King Louis VIII of France and the papal Legate, a three month siege ensued starting on 10 June 1226, and ending in capitulation by Avignon on 13 September 1226.

After the capitulation of the Wehrmacht in May 1945 the Allies occupied Germany in the borders as they were on 31 December 1937, as agreed to in the Berlin declaration of 5 June 1945.

After two magazines caught fire, the commandant was summoned again to surrender ; there was some delay, but a flag of truce was sent at 2100, and the capitulation was concluded at 0100 the next day.

After Wilhelm von Starkenberg's capitulation on 26 November 1426, Oswald was the last nobleman feuding with Count Friedrich, and was summoned to the Landtag in Bozen.

After the capitulation ( 15 May 1940, in Zeeland 2 days later ) Sint-Oedenrode found itself under German occupation.

After the capitulation ( 15 May 1940, in Zeeland 2 days later ) Sint-Oedenrode found itself under German occupation.

After the comprehensive French defeat, Junot was willing to offer complete capitulation.

After the French capitulation in 1940, Louis Renault refused to produce tanks for Nazi Germany, which took control of his factories.

After the capitulation of Paris in January 1871 he was sent down to Bordeaux to prevent the resistance of Léon Gambetta to the peace.

After some negotiation the parties concluded an armistice and agreed on capitulation ( onorevole capitolazione ), whereby the castles were to be evacuated, the hostages liberated and the garrisons free to remain in Naples unmolested or to sail for Toulon.

After capitulation, the five surviving Fiat CR. 42s were brought into a French Air Force depot in Fréjorques, where they were found by the Germans.

After the battle of Issus ( 333 BC ), when Alexander was proceeding south down the Phoenician coast and had received the capitulation of Sidon, Hephaestion was "... authorised to appoint to the throne the Sidonian he considered most deserving of that high office.

After the Italian capitulation in 1943, German troops occupied the island on January 12 and 13 of 1944, but in July they were defeated and the island was freed.

After hearing arguments from scientists and military officers over the possible uses of the weapons against Japan ( though some recommended using them as " demonstrations " in unpopulated areas, most recommended using them against " built up " targets, a euphemistic term for populated cities ), Truman ordered the use of the weapons on Japanese cities, hoping it would send a strong message that would end in the capitulation of the Japanese leadership and avoid a lengthy invasion of the islands.

After the capitulation of the Shogunate and the Meiji Restoration, the inhabitants, including the Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu, were required to vacate the premises of the Edo Castle.

After the battle, Serna signed the final capitulation whereby the Spaniards agreed to leave Peru.

After capitulation there were 3. 4 million German soldiers in the custody of the Western Allies.

After the German World War I capitulation South Africa took over the administration of German South-West Africa in 1915.

After the capitulation of Italy, Pavelić became the head of state in the place of Aimone, Duke of Aosta (" Tomislav II ") and retained the position of Prime Minister until early 1944, when he appointed Nikola Mandić to replace him.

After the capitulation of Montreal in 1760, New France was placed under military government.

After the German Revolution with the capitulation of Imperial Germany, between the 11th and the 14th of November 1918, the representatives of Germany formally handed over political power to the Estonian Provisional Government.

After Germany's capitulation in May 1945, Rinnan and a band of followers tried to escape into Sweden, but were caught.