 Complete the following phrase:  The Second World War ended in defeat for Germany in May 1945, and with that ended the twelve Nazi years and a national policy driven by anti-Semitism. It also seemed reasonable to assume that the end of the Hitler regime meant an end to one-party dictatorship. The entire central part of what had been Germany, including Leipzig and Castle Thallwitz, now became designated as the Soviet occupation zone: this was part of a larger scheme of border changes and other territorial provisions agreed by the political leaders of the victorious powers at the 