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 ...

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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 ...

Eli Gordon was just a U.S. Signal Corps sergeant at the Potsdam Conference in Germany in July 1945, but he sees himself as a participant in a key historical event. "There are so many stories leading ...

This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the website that puts the news into historical perspective. The article below was originally published at HNN. Yuen Foong Khong’s Analogies ...

Sir John Rutter conducts the Royal Philharmonic in Steinmetz Hall and the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra presents “Potsdam” at Judson’s Live.

David Runciman tells the story of the 1945 election and the dawn of a new age. Between the Yalta and Potsdam conferences, everything changed. Show more David Runciman tells the story of the 1945 ...