Why did germans forces surrender en masse to u. s. and british forces rather than to the soviets toward the end of the war? a. germans did not want to become communists. b. germans wanted to be captured by capitalists. c. germans knew u. s. and british forces were better supplied and therefore more likely to properly feed and shelter their prisoners. d. germans knew that the soviets would make them pay for the brutality they had inflicted upon russian civilians.