Because Potsdam secrecy remained inviolate last week, the work of 150 diplomatic reporters in Berlin had the fragmentary quality of a country newspaper column. ¶ The British were delighted with ...
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 ...
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 ...
With an Allied victory looking likely, the aim of the Yalta Conference was to decide what to do with Germany once it had been defeated. In many ways the Yalta Conference set the scene for the rest of ...