I don't think you can defeat a people who melt down entire Panzer divisions and build a church with them. This is the Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces, completed in 2020. It was literally built using metal melted down from captured Nazi tanks, artillery guns, and firearms.
The body of the commandant of the Mauthausen concentration camp, Franz Ziereis, hung on the camp fence.
He tried to escape, but was wounded by three shots from American soldiers. After the death of Ziereis, his body was hung on a fence by former prisoners.
May 25 , 1945.