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  Potsdam Conference on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The so-called Potsdam Agreement transferred the chief authority in Germany to the American, Russian, British, and French military commanders in their respective zones of occupation and to a four-power Allied Control Council for matters regarding the whole of Germany.
The work of the Allied Control Council for Germany was at first blocked by France, which did not feel bound by an agreement to which it had not been party; the council had not even begun to function when the rift caused by the cold war broke it up.
Potsdam's Schloss Cecilienhof, where the Potsdam Conference was held at the end of World War II, is now an inn.
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 Potsdam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Potsdam is the largest city in the state of Brandenburg and has been the capital city in the state since 1990.
Potsdam is within close proximity to the capital Berlin, and although it is smaller (with a population of 127,627 inhabitants) and very different, it maintains close links with the capital, Berlin.
Potsdam is a media city with the oldest and one of the largest film studios in the world and is home to some 80 film and media companies with more studios and offices planned.
www.eurotowns.org.uk /potsdamcity.html   (481 words)

  
 Potsdam Conference - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Potsdam Conference was a conference held at Cecilienhof in Potsdam, Germany (near Berlin), from July 17 to August 2, 1945.
The Potsdam Agreement, which called for the division of Germany and Austria into four occupation zones (agreed on earlier at the Yalta Conference), and the similar division of Berlin and Vienna into four zones.
While the border between Poland and Germany was practically determined and made irreversible by forced population transfers agreed in Potsdam, the West wanted the final peace conference to confirm the Oder-Neisse line as a permanent arrangement.
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 MSN Encarta - Potsdam Conference
Administration of the country, until the establishment of a permanent new government, was transferred to the military commanders of the United States, the USSR, the United Kingdom, and France, in their zones of occupation, and a four-power Allied Control Council was created to resolve questions pertaining to Germany as a whole.
On July 26, the U.S., British, and Chinese governments issued an ultimatum, called the Potsdam Declaration, to the Japanese government, confronting Japan with a choice between unconditional surrender and total annihilation; the USSR was not then at war with Japan and was not a party to the ultimatum.
Although the Potsdam Conference was considered successful, many of the agreements reached were dishonored within a year as a result of the growing rift between the USSR and Western Europe.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761554624/Potsdam_Conference.html   (417 words)

  
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on this tour through the heart of potsdam you will encounter many of the worldfamous buildings from this tiny city on the outskirts of berlin: the holländerviertel (dutch quarter), the palaces of sanssouci, and cecilienhof (where the potsdam conference was held in 1945).
but it was also the city where the "potsdam agreement" finally put an end to the german reich in 1945 and where the wartime allies tried to design some kind of joint responsibility for a new, democratic germany.
if you are a first-time visitor to potsdam and are simply interested in knowing what there is to see in this city and where, with a bit more time, one might investigate a little further, then just take one of the basic tours for potsdam: a walk through german history.
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 CNN Cold War - Historical Document: Potsdam Agreement
Potsdam divided postwar Germany into four occupation zones, administered by Britain, France, the United States and the Soviet Union, and reorganized Germany's institutions and economy.
It was noted with satisfaction that the Commission had ably discharged its principal tasks by the recommendations that it had furnished for the terms of surrender for Germany, for the zones of occupation in Germany and Austria and for the inter-Allied control machinery in those countries.
B. In conformity with the agreement on Poland reached at the Crimea Conference the three Heads of Government have sought the opinion of the Polish Provisional Government of National Unity in regard to the accession of territory in the north 'end west which Poland should receive.
www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/01/documents/potsdam.html   (6061 words)

  
 Potsdam Agreement - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The Potsdam Agreement, or the Potsdam Proclamation, was an agreement on policy for the occupation and reconstruction of Germany and other nations after fighting in the European Theatre of World War II had ended with the German surrender of May 8, 1945.
It was drafted and adopted by the major victorious powers, the USSR, USA and UK, at the Potsdam Conference between July 17 and August 2, 1945.
Potsdam Agreement, World War II politics and Post-World War II.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Potsdam_Agreement   (193 words)

  
 Brandenburg-Reiseland Wilkommen auf unserer Ferienhausseite   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Potsdam offers however much more and is a city with rich history, present time and future.
The name of Potsdam is closely linked with the largest tragedy of the German folk in 20 th Century.
Potsdam became district city of the GDR, remained as garnison city and lived of the industry and the objects of interest from Prussian time.
www.brandenburg-reiseland.de /bbgreise/enpdm.htm   (551 words)

  
 EUCOP 2005
With its unique attractions and its charming surroundings, Potsdam is considered to be one of the most popular tourist destinations in the country, famous in particular for its palaces and parks.
Potsdam was first documented in a deed of gift by Otto III dating back to July 3, 993.
It is a city which is renowned for the Potsdam Agreement, the palaces and gardens of Sanssouci, the Neuer Garten, Babelsberg park and the historical Dutch and Russian quarters.
www.awi-bremerhaven.de /EUCOP/general.html   (286 words)

  
 Deutsch-Amerikanisches-Zentrum / Byrnes-Institut e.V.
The basis of the Potsdam Agreement was that, as part of a combined program of demilitarization and reparations, Germany's war potential should be reduced by elimination and removal of her war industries and the reduction and removal of heavy industrial plants.
The Potsdam Agreement, concluded only a few months after the surrender, bound the occupying powers to restore local self-government and to introduce elective and representative principles into the regional, provincial, and state administration as rapidly as was consistent with military security and the purposes of the military occupation.
The Potsdam Agreement wisely provided that administration of the affairs of Germany should be directed toward decentralization of the political structure and the development of local responsibility.
www.daz.org /enByrnes-Rede.html   (3757 words)

  
 Extracts from Potsdam Declaration, August 2, 1945
The Allied armies are in occupation of the whole of Germany and the German people have begun to atone for the terrible crimes committed under the leadership of those whom in the hour of their success, they openly approved and blindly obeyed.
Agreement has been reached at this conference on the political and economic principles of a coordinated Allied policy toward defeated Germany during the period of Allied control.
German militarism and nazism will be extirpated and the Allies will take in agreement together, now and in the future, the other measures necessary to assure that Germany never again will threaten her neighbors or the peace of the world.
www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /documents/potsdam.htm   (581 words)

  
 Potsdam Conference   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The Potsdam Agreement which called for the division of Germany and Austria into four occupation zones (agreed on at the Yalta Conference) and the similar division of Berlin and Vienna into four zones.
From Potsdam to Cold War: Big Three Diplomacy 1945-1947 is James Gormly's second book on the topic of the transition from cooperation to confrontation of the three key allies that united to win World War II.
Meeting at Potsdam is a well written and engaging account of...you guessed it, the meeting of the big three at Potsdam, Germany in July 1945.
www.freeglossary.com /German_expulsions   (746 words)

  
 Willkommen in der Remise Blumberg - das kleine Haus im Hof
Potsdam is one of the most beautiful cities in Germany.
Truman, Stalin and Churchill signed the Potsdam Agreement and thus decided on the post-war borders of Europe and the future fate of Germany.
Potsdam's most popular sight still is the Schloß Sanssouci palace located in the park to which it gives its name.
www.techs-us.de /Blumberg/web/en/stadtland.php?lang=en&metanav=0   (292 words)

  
 Potsdam Conference   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
An excerpt from the conclusions of the Potsdam Conference, 1945...
The Berlin (Potsdam) Conference, July 17-August 2, 1945 (a) Protocol of the Proceedings, August l, 1945...
At the Potsdam Conference (July 17 to August 2, 1945) the Big Three Allied powers convened again to clarify and implement agreements...
www.conferencingsavvy.info /conferencing/potsdam-conference.html   (175 words)

  
 Potsdam, Germany  -  Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Potsdam, city in northeastern Germany, capital of the state of Brandenburg after the German unification in 1990 (formerly the capital of Potsdam District, East Germany).
Potsdam Conference, meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the USSR, and the United Kingdom, following the unconditional surrender of Germany in World War II.
Administration of the country, until the establishment of a permanent new government, was transferred to the military commanders of the U.S., the USSR, the United Kingdom, and France, in their zones of occupation, and a four-power Allied Control Council was created to resolve questions pertaining to Germany as a whole.
www.galenfrysinger.com /potsdam.htm   (460 words)

  
 Potsdam Agreement
The Potsdam Agreement was the treaty which ended World War II in Europe.
It was agreed upon by the USSR, USA and UK in the the Berlin (Potsdam) Conference, July 17-August 2, 1945.
In the Potsdam Conference the United States also warned Japan to surrender or face complete destruction.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/po/Potsdam_Agreement.html   (79 words)

  
 American History Documents II
The conference reached an agreement for the establishment of a Council of Foreign Ministers, representing the five principal Powers, to continue the necessary preparatory work for the peace settlements and to take up other matters which from time to time may be referred to the Council by agreement of the Governments participating in the Council.
It was noted with satisfaction that the Commission had ably discharged its principal tasks by the recommendations that it had furnished for the terms of Germany's unconditional surrender, for the zones of occupation in Germany and Austria, and for the interallied control machinery in those countries.
In conformity with the agreement on Poland reached at the Crimea conference, the three heads of Government have sought the opinion of the Polish Provisional Government of National Unity in regard to the accession of territory in the north and west which Poland should receive.
tucnak.fsv.cuni.cz /~calda/Documents/1940s/Potsdam%20Agreement,%201945.html   (3737 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Potsdam Agreement
Attlee, Truman, and Stalin at Potsdam The Potsdam Conference was a conference held at Cecilienhof in Potsdam, Germany (near Berlin), from July 17 to August 2, 1945.
July 17 is the 198th day (199th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 167 days remaining.
Potsdam is famous for being the city where the Allied Powers (Attley, Truman and Stalin) signed the Potsdam agreement in the Cecilienhof Palace at the end of World War II.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Potsdam-Agreement   (831 words)

  
 Polytronic 2001 - Location   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Potsdam, the state capital of Brandenburg, is actually an island in the middle of the picturesque, wooded landscape around the river Havel, close to the metropolis of Berlin.
Potsdam became the focus of world attention in 1945 during the Potsdam Conference at Cecilienhof Palace.
This is where Truman, Stalin and Attlee signed the ‘Potsdam Agreement’, thus setting the course of European post-war history.
www.polytronic.org /Location.htm   (147 words)

  
 Potsdam News
POTSDAM, NY — What is the low point of a season for one team could be a giant step for another, and such was the case Saturday in Potsdam College's Maxcy...
POTSDAM, NY — The Middlebury Panthers have a good mixture of youth and experience but it was the youngsters that won the day in the championship game of the...
Potsdam College senior Jodie Schoppmann was the individual champion and shattered the course record with a 21:17 clocking.
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 The Avalon Project :
In particular, its provisions regarding disarmament, economic and financial matters, and reparations should be read together with the similar provisions set out in the Potsdam agreement on the treatment of Germany in the initial control period and in the agreement on reparations contained in the Potsdam communiqué.
Where the Potsdam agreement is silent on matters of policy dealt with in the directive, the latter continues to guide General Eisenhower in his administration of the United States Zone in Germany.
Subject to the provisions of paragraphs 30 and 32, the Control Council should assure that all feasible measures are taken to facilitate, to the minimum extent necessary for the purposes outlined in paragraphs 4 and 5 of this directive.
www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/wwii/ger02.htm   (6034 words)

  
 The Cold War Museum - Potsdam Agreement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
But given the drafting history, this phrasing cannot be interpreted as a surrender of the principle that the Soviets had the right to extract reparation from their zone in any form they chose.
It is sometimes argued that paragraph 19 of Part II of the Potsdam Agreement ruled out reparation from current production, at any rate until Germany was able to earn enough from exports to finance necessary imports.
If, as was expected, there was no agreement, the assumption was that the zonal authorities would be free to do whatever they wanted.
www.coldwar.org /articles/40s/potsdam_agreement.php3   (347 words)

  
 Romania - Petru Groza's Premiership
At the Potsdam Conference in July and August 1945, the United States delegation protested that the Soviet Union was improperly implementing the Yalta declarations in Romania and called for elections to choose a new government.
The Potsdam agreement on Southeastern Europe provided for a council of foreign ministers to negotiate a peace treaty to be concluded with a recognized, democratic Romanian government.
The agreement prompted King Michael to call for Groza to resign because his government was neither recognized nor democratic.
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 Talk:Potsdam Agreement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There seems to be nothing here but the text of the Potstdam agreement itself.
This should be an article about the Potsdam agreement, discussing its implications and history and all that kind of stuff, not a dump of the text.
Initiative Potsdamer Abkommen This is a website of the antifa/inipa group, which was organized by the SED communist GDR German Democratic Republic.
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 Potsdam Declaration
The Potsdam Declaration (not to be confused with the Potsdam Agreement) was a statementissued on July 26, 1945 by Harry S Truman, Winston Churchill, and Chiang Kai-Shek whichoutlined the terms of surrender for Japan.
The Potsdam Declaration (not to be confused with the Potsdam Agreement) was a statement issued on July 26, 1945 by Harry S Truman, Winston Churchill, and Chiang Kai-Shek which outlined the terms of surrender for Japan.
Japan accepted the terms of the Potsdam Declaration upon its surrender to the Allies.
www.termsdefined.net /po/potsdam-declaration.html   (112 words)

  
 Part III - FINALE The Framework of Peace (1)
The Soviet delegation at Potsdam was dominated by Stalin and his henchman Molotov the foreign minister.
France and China did not participate in the Potsdam Conference and so the United States ambassador to France' Jefferson Caffery, addressed a series of notes to the French minister of foreign affairs, George Bidault, transmitting some agreements concluded at Potsdam before they were published.
Although the Western and Chinese foreign ministers were baffled by Molotovs interpretation of the Potsdam Agreement, in a spirit of compromise they showed willingness to accept Molotovs proposal.
www.hungarian-history.hu /lib/ill/ill15.htm   (3181 words)

  
 Appendix One (Chapter Two, Note 86): The Potsdam Agreement and Reparations from Current Production   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The American government was thus mistaken when it later claimed that the USSR had no right under the Potsdam agreement to take current output reparations from the eastern zone.
U.S. proposal, July 23, 24 or 25, 1945, FRUS Potsdam, 2:869.
1485, and the documents that bridge the gap from the Soviet July 31 proposal to the August 1 agreement: ibid., pp.
www.polisci.ucla.edu /faculty/trachtenberg/appendices/appendixI.html   (285 words)

  
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Toward the end of the Potsdam Conference, a draft "vesting decree" was referred to the U.S. Element of the Allied Control Council with the request that the other Allied members be persuaded to agree to it.
Near the conclusion of the Potsdam Conference, President Truman instructed Lieutenant General Lucius Clay, Deputy U.S. Military Governor in Germany, to propose the vesting decree to the Allied Control Council.
Agreement could not be reached, however, on whether Italy, Austria, Hungary, and Albania should receive a portion of the gold pot, but agreement was reached that Poland and Danzig should not be recipients inasmuch as the Soviet Union had renounced any claim to such gold.
www.ushmm.org /assets/state/three.htm   (4530 words)

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