Question: When did the country, that the owner of Blondi aligned Germany with, surrender to the Allies in WWII?

the war in europe concluded with an invasion of germany by the western allies and the soviet union, culminating in the capture of berlin by soviet troops, the suicide of adolf hitler and the subsequent german unconditional surrender on 8 may 1945. following the potsdam declaration by the allies on 26 july 1945 and the refusal of japan to surrender under its terms, the united states dropped atomic bombs on the japanese cities of hiroshima and nagasaki on 6 and 9 august respectively. with an invasion of the japanese archipelago imminent, the possibility of additional atomic bombings and the soviet invasion of manchuria, japan formally surrendered on 2 september 1945. thus ended the war in asia, cementing the total victory of the allies. <SEP> Dogs like Blondi were coveted as "", being close to the wolf, and became very fashionable during the Nazi era. Blondi played a role in Nazi propaganda by portraying Hitler as an animal lover. On 29 April 1945, Hitler expressed doubts about the cyanide capsules he had received through Heinrich Himmler's SS. To verify the capsules' potency, Hitler ordered Dr. Werner Haase to test one on Blondi, who died as a result. <SEP> 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. 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. The armistice was approved by both King Victor Emmanuel III and Italian Prime Minister Pietro Badoglio. The armistice stipulated the surrender of Italy to the Allies. <SEP> world war ii (often abbreviated to wwii or ww2), also known as the second world war, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier. the vast majority of the world's countries -- including all of the great powers -- eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the allies and the axis. it was the most global war in history; it directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. in a state of total war, the major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. world war ii was the deadliest conflict in human history, marked by 50 to 85 million fatalities, most of which were civilians in the soviet union and china. it included massacres, the genocide of the holocaust, strategic bombing, premeditated death from starvation and disease and the only use of nuclear weapons in war. <SEP> Following the Allied victory in the Second World War, Europe was divided by the Iron Curtain. The countries in Southeastern Europe were dominated by the Soviet Union and became communist states. 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. The major non-communist Southern European countries joined a US-led military alliance (NATO) and formed the European Economic Community amongst themselves. The countries in the Soviet sphere of influence joined the military alliance known as the Warsaw Pact and the economic bloc called Comecon. Yugoslavia was neutal.