The GDR came under the area of influence of USSR while the FRG came under the
influence of USA.
In the far-East, Japan surrendered to USA after the bombing of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. With this, the second world war ended in August 1945. US armies occupied
Japan but allowed the Japanese Emperor to continue to rule. But Japan built a
Constitutional Monarchy like England. Japan was to be ruled by the elected
government responsible to the parliament (DIET).
Many of the Nazi generals and leaders were captured and put to trial in the
famous Nuremberg trials. The Nuremberg Tribunal sentenced only eleven leading Nazis
to death. Many others were imprisoned for life. Although justice happened,yet the
punishment given to the Nazis was very little as compared to the brutality