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The victorious Allies initiated a policy of massiveВ denazificationВ and put many of the surviving Nazi leadership on trial forВ war crimesВ at theВ Nuremberg trials

Hitler's refusal to admit defeat led to massive destruction of German infrastructure and additional war-related deaths in the closing months of the war. Following theВ Allied invasion of France, Germany was conquered by the Soviets from the east and theВ other Allied powersВ from the west and surrendered within a year. Large-scale aerial bombing of Germany escalated in 1944, and the Nazis retreated from Eastern and Southern Europe. Jews and others deemed undesirable were imprisoned inВ Nazi concentration campsВ andВ extermination camps.ДЇollowing theВ German invasionВ of theВ Soviet UnionВ in 1941, the tide turned against the Nazis, who suffered major military defeats in 1943. ReichskommissariatsВ took control of conquered areas, and aВ German administrationВ was established in what was left of Poland. In alliance with Italy and smallerВ Axis powers, Germany conquered most of Europe by 1940 and threatened Great Britain. Hitler madeВ a pactВ withВ Joseph StalinВ andВ invaded PolandВ in September 1939, launching World War II in Europe. It seizedВ AustriaВ andВ CzechoslovakiaВ in 19. Beginning in the late 1930s, Nazi Germany made increasingly aggressive territorial demands, threatening war if they were not met.