Many of the German films of the immediate post-war period can be characterised as belonging to the genre of the Trümmerfilm ( literally " rubble film ").

Many major Scottish post-war novelists, such as Muriel Spark, with The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ( 1961 ) spent much or most of their lives outside Scotland, but often dealt with Scottish themes.

Many from Finland used this opportunity to secure better paying jobs in Sweden in the 1950s and 1960s, dominating Sweden's first wave of post-war labour immigrants.

Many others were captured and prosecuted by Allied authorities at the Nuremberg Trials for war crimes, and absconding SS criminals were the targets of police forces in various Allied nations, post-war West and East Germany, Austria, and Israel.

Many of SOM's post-war designs have become icons of American modern architecture, including the Manhattan House ( 1950 ), designated as a New York City landmark in 2007 by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission ; and the Lever House ( 1952 ), also in New York City ; as well as the Air Force Academy Chapel ( 1958 ) in Colorado Springs, Colorado ; and the John Hancock Center ( 1969 ) and Sears Tower ( 1973 ), both in Chicago.

Many of the country's largest firms were nationalized in the early post-war period to protect them from Soviet takeover as war reparations.

Many of these were counterbored post-war.

Many post-war designs were of limited performance, including designs like the F-86D and F-89 Scorpion.

Many of the post-war estates were built on bomb sites or replaced areas which had experienced damage.

Many of the scientists involved in Unit 731 went on to prominent careers in post-war politics, academia, business, and medicine.

Many major Scottish post-war novelists, such as Muriel Spark, James Kennaway, Alexander Trocchi, Jessie Kesson and Robin Jenkins spent much or most of their lives outside Scotland, but often dealt with Scottish themes, as in Spark's Edinburgh-set The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ( 1961 ) and Kennaway's script for the film Tunes of Glory ( 1956 ).

Many post-war activists such as Luis Valdez, Ralph Ellison and Richard Wright have claimed that they were inspired by the zoot suit riots.

Many naval air stations across the United States were closing because they couldn ’ t meet the requirements of the post-war Naval Aviation ; 6, 000-foot runways were now the minimum standard and approach paths had to be suitable for radar-controlled approaches in any weather.

Many Germans blamed their country's post-war economic collapse and hyperinflation on the treaty's conditions.

Many buildings are relics of European post-war Modernism.

Many of the houses in the area lay empty post-war and many were bought cheaply by speculative landlords who then let them out to the growing student populations of the Mountview and Hornsey Art Colleges.

Many were shocked to find a Yiddish verse ( sung by Mikhoels ) cut out from the famous lullaby in the Soviet classic movie Circus (" Tsirk ", 1936 ), known by heart by millions and still very popular in post-war Soviet cinemas.

Many more returned to Sweden as adults, when the prolonged post-war hardship in Finland pushed large contingents of unemployed Finns to Sweden's booming economy in the 1950s – 60s.

Many veterans had been trained to work on automobiles and motorcycles and were looking to add a little excitement to their post-war lives with their newly acquired mechanical skills.

Many of the comedians from music hall and wartime gang shows worked on the post-war radio, and characters such as Julian and Sandy on Round the Horne used innuendo extensively in their acts.

Many Germans had fled the region as the Soviets advanced ; the post-war expulsions of Germans from Polish territory ( and emigration of remaining Jews ) left Poznań with an almost uniformly ethnically Polish population, which totalled 268, 000 in 1946.

Many collectors and historians are of the opinion that the M1945 helmet is either just a regular M1942 helmet that lacked the vents simply because of machine malfunctions in the factory, or unfinished M1942 that were completed in the post-war era.

Many parishioners fled until the end of the World War II, most of the remaining were expelled by Poland in the post-war period of expulsion of Germans from Poland in 1945-1948.

Many critics of the American War on Terror, including the UK's foreign intelligence services, did not believe that American actions would help to end terror, and believed that they would actually increase the ranks and capabilities of terrorist groups ; some believed that during the war and immediate post-war period there would be a greatly increased risk that weapons of mass destruction would fall into the wrong hands ( including Al-Qaida ).

Many factors contributed to the growth of the European movement.

Many scholars consider modern anthropology as an outgrowth of the Age of Enlightenment, a period when Europeans attempted to study human behavior systematically, the known varieties of which had been increasing since the fifteenth century as a result of the first European colonization wave.

Many old methods had been lost during the periods of European contact.

Many European countries, such as Germany, ban most Sunday shopping.

Many European countries still place strong restrictions on store opening hours on Sundays, an example being Germany's Ladenschlussgesetz.

Many British Standards ( BSs ) – as well as some of the European and International Standards that were adopted as British Standards ( BS EN, BS ISO ) – are also available in public and university libraries in the United Kingdom.

Many Central European countries and regions were parts of the German Empire | German and the Austro-Hungarian empires ; thus they also have historical and cultural connections.

Many European designers immigrated to the U. S. since the economy was recovering.

Many European languages do not distinguish clearly between the two though.

Many European and American admirers such as Voltaire and H. G. Creel point to the revolutionary idea of replacing nobility of blood with nobility of virtue.

Many European nations chartered corporations to lead colonial ventures, such as the Dutch East India Company or the Hudson's Bay Company, and these corporations came to play a large part in the history of corporate colonialism.

Many of the European armies henceforth imitated this all-purpose set of weaponry.

Many French people are uninterested in such matters: only 40 % of the French electorate voted in the 2009 European Parliament elections.

Many Greeks either fled to other European nations or to geographically isolated areas ( i. e. mountains and heavily forested territories ) in order to escape foreign rule.

Many European countries took action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions before 1990.

Many of these nacent states formed the core of many modern European countries.

Many international hedge fund markets are affected by regulation passed in 2010 within the United States and European Union.

Many early typefaces were modelled on local forms of writing or derived from the various European forms of Gothic script, but there were also some derived from documentary scripts ( such as most of Caxton's types ), and, particularly in Italy, types modelled on handwritten scripts and calligraphy employed by humanists.

Many European monarchs were related due to political marriages, sometimes resulting in distant cousins ( and even first cousins ) being married.

Many of Africa's borders were artificially imposed by European colonial powers.

Many European Soviet citizens and much of Russia's industry were relocated to Kazakhstan during World War II, when Nazi armies threatened to capture all the European industrial centers of the Soviet Union.

Many nations have used the system, including the United States, Japan, and several European countries.

Many other European languages have one lateral and one rhotic phoneme.

Many European sailors were shipwrecked on the coasts of the island, among them Robert Drury, whose journal is one of the few written depictions of life in southern Madagascar during the 18th century.