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A precision, however : all you say is true but the war was officially made against Germany and its legal government (and, until 1943, Italy). not against the Nazis, German or others. Against the German army (although there were the SS who were a political army). The capitulation, the "unconditional surrender", was imposed to Germany.Churchill refereed to them as "Nazis" and so did tons of period literature.
"Nazis" has been misused ever since by those who have no clue about the horror the Nazi's inflicted on everybody they could get their hands on even other Germans.
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The Anglo-American, when they invaded Germany, considered it was an enemy territory (Alsace included at the beginning), even if non-Nazi Germans existed.
A detail, the nickname French people gave to Germans during the Occupation did not refer to Nazis. They were called "les Boches", "les Chleuhs", "les Fritz" (used by my father), "les Frisés".
Another detail : the partition of Germany until 1989 was the partition of Germany, not of the Nazis...
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