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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mr. Feis, who has written several notable books on recent diplomatic history, here continues the narrative of his earlier "Churchill-Roosevelt-Stalin." The author had access to the State Department ...

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 ...