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The Potsdam Conference: How Germany Was Carved Up
In July 1945, as the ruins of Berlin still smoldered, Harry Truman, Winston Churchill (later Clement Attlee), and Joseph Stalin met at Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam to decide the fate of a defeated Germany. This episode of The History of Germany takes you inside the conference that carved Germany into four occupation zones, set reparations at dismantled factories and forced labor, and drew the Oder-Neisse line that shifted Poland westward. We explore the tensions between the Allies—Truman’s atomic bomb leverage, Stalin’s demands for a million German prisoners, and Churchill’s fears of a…
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