War ended , formally , in May 1945 , and with it the Nazi régime . Drucker had successfully , and not without the odd adventure along the way , made her way back to the bombed-out city of Leipzig . In terms of the future , the US and Soviet governments had already agreed that Germany would be divided into zones of occupation : Leipzig would be administered as part of the Soviet occupation zone . When the war ended , however , it was the US army that had captured the city , while the Red army concentrated on military objectives further to the north including , notably , Berlin . In the early summer of 1945 the Drucker family found themselves in danger in what remained of Leipzig . Before the Nazi power seizure Martin Drucker had worked as a public prosecutor and had also gained a reputation as a criminal defence lawyer . There were still plenty of Nazis in the city who detested him , and the family accordingly moved to Jena and went into hiding for several weeks . It was only in June 1945 , as order began to be restored , that the family were able to move back into Leipzig . In July 1945 US forces withdrew from Leipzig which now , for the next 45 years , would fall within the ambit of the Soviet Union
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Renate Drucker