Question: When did the country the leader of the Luftwaffe aligned Germany with surrender to the Allies in WWII?

<P0-S0> By May 1941 the threat of an invasion of Britain had passed, and Hitler's attention had turned to Operation Barbarossa in the East. <P0-S1> The bombing failed to demoralise the British into surrender or significantly damage the war economy. <P0-S2> The eight months of bombing never seriously hampered British production and the war industries continued to operate and expand. <P0-S3> The Blitz was only authorised when the Luftwaffe had failed to meet preconditions for a 1940 launch of Operation Sea Lion, the provisionally planned German invasion of Britain. <P0-S4> In comparison to the later Allied bombing campaign against Germany, the Blitz resulted in relatively few casualties; the British bombing of Hamburg in July 1943 inflicted some 42,000 civilian deaths, about the same as the entire Blitz. <SEP> <P1-S0> Following the Allied victory in the Second World War, Europe was divided by the Iron Curtain. <P1-S1> The countries in Southeastern Europe were dominated by the Soviet Union and became communist states. <P1-S2> The Nazi regime under Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, and along with Mussolini's Italy sought to gain control of the continent by the Second World War. <P1-S3> The major non-communist Southern European countries joined a US-led military alliance (NATO) and formed the European Economic Community amongst themselves. <P1-S4> The countries in the Soviet sphere of influence joined the military alliance known as the Warsaw Pact and the economic bloc called Comecon. <P1-S5> Yugoslavia was neutal. <SEP> <P2-S0> the end of world war ii in asia occurred on 14 and 15 august 1945, when armed forces of the empire of japan surrendered to the forces of the allies. <P2-S1> the surrender came over three months after the surrender of the axis forces in europe and brought an end to world war ii. <SEP> <P3-S0> The Armistice of Cassibile was an armistice signed on 3 September 1943 by Walter Bedell Smith and Giuseppe Castellano, and made public on 8 September, between the Kingdom of Italy and the Allies of World War II. <P3-S1> It was signed at a conference of generals from both sides in an Allied military camp at Cassibile in Sicily, which had recently been occupied by the Allies. <P3-S2> The armistice was approved by both King Victor Emmanuel III and Italian Prime Minister Pietro Badoglio. <P3-S3> The armistice stipulated the surrender of Italy to the Allies. <SEP> <P4-S0> germans viewed this clause as a national humiliation, forcing germany to accept full responsibility for causing the war. <P4-S1> german politicians were vocal in their opposition to the article in an attempt to generate international sympathy, while german historians worked to undermine the article with the objective of subverting the entire treaty. <P4-S2> the allied leaders were surprised at the german reaction; they saw the article only as a necessary legal basis to extract compensation from germany. <P4-S3> the article, with the signatory's name changed, was also included in the treaties signed by germany's allies who did not view the clause with the same disdain as the germans did. <P4-S4> american diplomat john foster dulles -- one of the two authors of the article -- later regretted the wording used, believing it further aggravated the german people.