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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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...