The post-war years were a time of hardship, natural disaster and mass emigration, followed by rebuilding, large-scale public works programmes ( especially the Delta Works ), economic recovery, European integration and the gradual introduction of a welfare state.

However, it has been argued that anti-Semitic themes continued, especially in the depiction of Tintin's enemy Rastapopoulos in the post-war Flight 714, though other writers argue against this, pointing out the way that Rastapopoulos surrounds himself with explicitly German-looking characters: Kurt, the submarine ( or u-boat ) commander of The Red Sea Sharks ; Doctor Krollspell, whom Hergé himself referred to as a former concentration camp official, and Hans Boehm, the sinister-looking navigator and co-pilot, both from Flight 714.

In the immediate post-war era, the US and USSR both started rocket research programs based on the German wartime designs, especially the V-2.

Restored and landmark-protected examples are still present in America, especially in California in Berkeley and Pasadena, and the sections of other towns originally developed during the era and not experiencing post-war urban renewal.

Difficult as it was in the war and post-war years to find a job, especially for a home-schooled youth, the enterprising Durrell worked as a helper at an aquarium and pet store.

Having led the OSS during World War II, Donovan ’ s opinion was especially influential as to what kind of intelligence organization was needed as a bi-polar post-war world began to take shape.

This especially advantaged class of cars was developed to promote popular motorization in the post-war era.

It could be argued that it lost influence when the Second World War came, was won, and was widely perceived as morally justified, especially as the horrors of Nazism became known in the post-war period.

There had been proposed plans drawn up pre-war for the post war years which would have been classed as extremely ambitious, especially in the austere post-war years.

The post-war festival slowly regained its prominence as the premier summer opera festival, especially in works by Mozart, with conductor Herbert von Karajan becoming artistic director in 1956.

KPH platform of post-war reorganisation of Yugoslavia on federal grounds also attracted many non-Communist Croatians to its cause, especially in the later stages of war.

In post-war United States people's residences and domestic lives became more outdoor oriented, especially in the western states as promoted by ' Sunset Magazine ', with the backyard often becoming an outdoor room.

During the wartime fighting and post-war deportations in the subsequent decades, most Masurian-speakers left Masuria for western Germany, especially to post-war West Germany, where they were quickly assimilated into the German mainstream.

The resort went on to become a center of regional post-war society, especially after the arrival of the railroad.

Rabbi Breuer saw the risk of misinterpretation of his grandfather's ideas ( and confusion with Torah Umadda ) especially post-war.

: was perhaps the shrewdest and most original anti-imperialist analyst of the post-war world, especially in the dynamics between the West and the post-colonial states of Asia and Africa.

In the United States, the end of the American Civil War and a brief post-war recession ( 1865 – 1867 ) gave way to such an investment boom, focused especially on railroads on public lands in the West-an expansion funded greatly by foreign investors.

This collection includes material about the large scale developments in post-war astronomy and astrophysics, especially the creation of large ( 4 meter ) optical telescopes in the southern hemisphere.

Despite the general Anglophone taboo, horse and donkey meat was eaten in Britain, especially in Yorkshire, until the 1930s, and in times of post-war food shortage surged in popularity in the United States and was considered for use in hospitals.

) written after this period and into the post-war years ( especially starting with the Symphony No. 24, the piano sonatina, the Ninth Quartet ) while Romantic in tone and style, are direct in harmony and development.

The communist party was especially strong in Central Italy, in the three " red regions " ( Tuscany, Emilia-Romagna, Umbria ) which it had administered rather efficiently, as well as other local administrations, since the post-war years.

The pro-industry outlook of the Republicans appealed to many Northern voters, especially as the post-war economy exploded, and this allowed the party to flourish as the Industrial Revolution grew more widespread.

The government was criticized for waiting for so long, especially since many double agents, otherwise sworn to secrecy, were convicted as collaborators during the post-war treason trials.

Here again it seems that useful approximations of the size and geographical distribution of the population were obtained in this way in the late pre-war and early post-war periods.

Fishing vessels were major post-war users, but it was also used on aircraft, including a very early ( 1949 ) application of moving-map displays.

The post-war decades were relatively stable ( with the notable exception of an armed independence movement in the Basque Country ), and the country experienced rapid economic growth in the 1960s and early 1970s.

In the early post-war period, Tripolitania and Cyrenaica remained under British administration, while the French controlled Fezzan.

The relationship probably hit a post-war nadir around the early 1990s, when Japan's " economic rise " was seen as a threat to American power.

In the post-war era, the early years of the Cold War, the Soviet Red Army and NATO further developed the equipment and doctrine for mechanized infantry.

Some of these ideas were put into practice in the early post-war political movement " Maasina Ruru "-often corrupted to " Marching Rule ".

The decade also witnessed the early beginnings of new technologies ( including computers, nuclear power and jet propulsion ), often first developed in tandem with the war effort, and later adapted and improved upon in the post-war era.

The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail ( 1945 ), and the post-war Drunken Angel ( 1948 ), and Stray Dog ( 1949 ), directed by Akira Kurosawa are considered important early works leading to his first masterpieces of the 1950s.

This included the conversion of Handley Page Halifax bombers into freighters, six of which were sold to Bond Air Services, an early post-war independent British airline.

In the early 1950s a modern new station was erected, a typical post-war building with concrete as its main material.

During the early post-war era ( 1947 – 1955 ), eight foreign language films received Special or Honorary Awards.

Pre-fabricated buildings, marine craft, and plastic and composite materials were also early post-war activities, but these were eventually sold off.

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

Engineering and research also saw great growth and expansion from the post-war period until the early 1970s.

German historian Hans-Erich Volkmann noted problems with German historiography, outlining some of the unreliability inherent in early post-war studies, which were still significantly affected by the Nazi era, and that the Bydgoszcz events were and still are used for political purposes.

The line presented the Metropolitan with a problem – so successful was the suburban traffic that by the early 1930s, the lines into Baker Street were becoming overloaded, a problem which was exacerbated by the post-war flight from the City of London to the West End of London.

In post-war years attention turned to attempts by the Soviet Union and the Comintern to surreptitiously support revolutionary activities within Britain, and MI5's expertise combined with the early incompetence of the Soviets meant the bureau was successful once more in correctly identifying and closely monitoring these activities.

During the early post-war years, the McIntosh Company had complete control over the sale of lots as well as the resale of homes.

With its revitalized and oil-based economy, Premont continued to grow and prosper during the early post-war years.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s Scotland saw a creation of several " post-war new towns ".

Ferris thrived during the early post-war years.

On the outside, it is decorated with sculptures of soldiers, workers and aviators, while inside walls and ceilings feature wreaths, bay leaves and stars, and until early 1990s, the Soviet hammer and sickle, typical decor for Soviet public buildings of early post-war years.