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.