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The Potsdam Conference: How the Allies Divided Germany
In July 1945, as the ashes of World War II still smoldered, Harry Truman, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin met in the Berlin suburb of Potsdam to decide Germany's fate. This episode unpacks the key decisions made at the Potsdam Conference: the division of Germany into four occupation zones, the Oder–Neisse line that shifted Poland westward, the dismantling of German industry, and the prosecution of Nazi war criminals. We explore how the conference's ambiguous language on reparations and economic unity sowed the seeds of the Cold War, and how the leaders' contrasting…
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