Why did Germany, Italy and Japan surrender in WWII?
Germany: Adolf Hitler had committed suicide and the Soviet Union had taken Berlin. To avoid the nation of Germany falling entirely into Soviet hands, Germany ended the war ASAP. The last thing Germans wanted was to live under a Soviet communist regime. The Soviets didn’t care about the Geneva Convention and were raping German, Hungarian and Romanian civilians at will as the Soviet army advanced into Europe. As a result, Germany surrendered to the Western Allies to ensure that there will at least be negotiations for post-war Germany, thus saving the German people from Soviet occupation. Had Germany continued the fight, the Soviet Union would’ve occupied the entire country by force. Italy: Technically, they didn’t surrender. Benito Mussolini was murdered by Italian partisans and the Italian fascist government was overthrown by the people. Italy then joined the Allies for the remainder of WWII out of their own accord. Japan: In August 1945, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan and invad
