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 ...

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 ...

In July 1945, 80 years ago, when World War II (WWII) in Europe was finally over, leaders of the three victorious powers - the Soviet Union, the UK and the US - gathered in the Berlin suburb of Potsdam ...

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 ...

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 ...