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 Soviet Europe—and how decisions made in just over two weeks laid the groundwork for the Cold War and the Berlin Wall. With details on the Potsdam Agreement, the Allied Control Council, and the expulsion of 12 million Germans from the east, this is the story of how Germany’s future was written in a palace by men who trusted each other only slightly more than they trusted their former enemy. #PotsdamConference #Cecilienhof #PotsdamAgreement #OccupationZones #OderNeisseLine #HarryTruman #JosephStalin #WinstonChurchill #ClementAttlee #ColdWarOrigins #GermanExpulsion #AlliedControlCouncil #Reparations #WWIIAftermath #BerlinBlockade #FexingoHistory #History #GermanHistory Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo