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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Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The Potsdam conference of July 17 to August 2 1945 formalised the destruction of Nazi German power, gave provisional ...

The interior of the Cecilienhof Palace in Germany, the location of the Potsdam Conference in July and August 1945. [Photo/Xinhua] A caricature of Tin Tin's China adventure, a Kar98K rifle Germany sold ...

A caricature of Tin Tin's China adventure, a Kar98K rifle Germany sold to China, and the diary of "China's Oskar Schindler" John Rabe can now be admired at the Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam, about 40 ...

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 ...

August 1, 1945, front row from left Clement Attlee, Harry S. Truman, Josef Stalin, back row from left, William Daniel Leahy, Ernest Bevin and James F. Byrnes. Yevgeni Khaldei (1917-1997) was a Soviet ...