Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich until 1943, later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship. Lviv was a city in the Soviet Union, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. The USSR was ruled by Joseph Stalin at the time, who was very cruel and sent millions to Siberia. So when the Nazis liberate Lviv, the country becomes even more strict.