The Potsdam Conference shaped the diplomacy of the end of World War II. And on this day in history, July 17, 1945, following Nazi Germany's surrender in the war, President Harry S. Truman, British ...

At the first gathering of the “Big Three” Allied powers in the wake of Germany’s defeat in World War II, there was “no bubbling overflow of talk at luncheons and dinners in the intervals between the ...

War’s thunder trailed off into a tinkling minuet. The dust of Sidi Barrani, Stalingrad and Aachen had dissolved; and there, as in a dream, were the clipped green lawns of Sanssouci. There was a second ...

President Harry S, Truman, centre pictured with Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin at the Potsdam Conference History News Network This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the website ...

Up until the second decade of the 20th century, Europe had been home to magnificent feats of cultural brilliance, architecture splendor, and a central hub of cosmopolitan ideas. By May 1945, however, ...

Potsdam - Das Verhältnis der westlichen Konferenzteilnehmer zu Josef Stalin war von Beginn der Potsdamer Konferenz durch Gegensätzlichkeiten und Konkurrenzdenken geprägt. Doch der sowjetische Diktator ...

Nicht immer sind die Personen, die über das Schicksal des europäischen Kontinents entscheiden, die qualifiziertesten, die integersten, die moralisch unanfechtbarsten. Die Situation, der wir heute ...

In an unassuming former rectory in the eastern German city of Potsdam, Soviet spy catchers once tortured suspects to wring out confessions before executing their victims or dispatching them to ...

In the summer of 1945 the world's eyes were trained on a German palace where the three most powerful men of the day had gathered to discuss post-war European order. On a sunny afternoon exactly 70 ...