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 ...

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 ...

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Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The Potsdam conference of July 17 to August 2 1945 formalised the destruction of Nazi German power, gave provisional ...

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 ...