What happend to Germany after World war 2

Germany had suffered heavy losses during the war, both in lives and industrial power ... Millions of German prisoners of war were for several years used as forced labor, both by the Western Allies and the Soviet Union.

Nazi Germany surrenders, May 7, 1945. On this day in 1945, Gen. Alfred Jodl, representing the German High Command, signed a document unconditionally surrendering all German military forces, to take effect the following day, thereby all but ending World War II in Europe.