Rewrite the following sentence to make it more concise:

The referendum was held by the government in the month of August.

The Government held a referendum in the August.

Please check my work.

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If you remove "the" before "August" and use a lower-case "g" on "government", it'll be fine!
The trials were held by the allied power to bring Nazi war criminals to justice.
how do I fix the were held part