Divide it into four zones
Rebuild Germany and not take Russia.
1945 when Germany surrendered to the allies.
There was a war on, aginst Germany, and Berlin was the German HG. At first, we just wanted Hitler, dead. But then we learned about the "death camps", and decided that we wanted him alive.
when Germany surrendered to the allies
They surrendered on may,7,1945 The Japanese surrendered in September 1945 The Italian surrendered in 1943
Russia suffered greatly at the hands of the Germans. There was a great amount of hatred and contempt for Germany, and at the end of WW2, after Germany had been defeated, the Allies decided to split Germany to keep them from building enough strength to do it again.
After WWII, Germany was defeated by the allies and divided. East Germany was run by the USSR (Russians). Berlin, the capital, was located in East Germany, but was controlled by the USSR and the western allies. The Berlin wall was build to keep the East Germans in Eastern Berlin from entering Western Berlin of Western Germany.
The Nazi Empire fell when Germany surrendered in May 1945. Adolf Hitler had committed suicide about a week before Germany surrendered to the Allies.
Germany was divided, after WWII, into two- East and West Germany. The East belonged to the USSR and the West belonged to the allies. Berlin (the capitol of Germany) was also divided. (Of course the West half goes to the allies and east to the USSR) But Berlin was located in the USSR's side of Germany. Later the Soviet Union closed off the airports in their half of Berlin to try and get the allies to leave, so of course the allies' planes couldn't land there to defend West Berlin.
A month after Italy surrendered to the Allied Powers, it delcared war on Germany.
Berlin . At the end of World War II, it was decided that Germany's capital, Berlin, would be partitioned between the four major powers, the United States, Great Britain, France, and the USSR.
The French, Americans, Russians and Britons decided to divide Germany into zones when they met at the Yalta Conference.