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 ...

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 ...

The Berlin Conference of the Three Heads of Government of the U. S. S. R., U. S. A., and U. K., which took place from July 17 to August 2, 1945, came to the following conclusions: I. ESTABLISHMENT OF ...

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 ...

Cecil Fleener, who as a member of President Harry Truman’s staff in 1945 attended the Potsdam Conference to negotiate the terms of post-war Germany, has died of old-age conditions and diabetes. He was ...