The U.S. 2nd Infantry Division and U.S. 69th Infantry Division reached Leipzig in April 1945 and completed its capture after " fierce urban action " . By this time , however . President Roosevelt , Prime Minister Churchill and Marshal Stalin had already agreed a postwar military settlement for the western two thirds of Germany which would divide the territory into four separate occupation zones . Under the agreement Leipzig was to be administered as part of the Soviet occupation zone . Accordingly , in July 1945 the United States army withdrew from the city and Soviet forces moved in . By this time both the publishing firms who had published Voigt 's work before the National Socialists had banned it had moved what remained of their businesses from Leipzig to Munich , which had ended up under American military occupation
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