Potsdam Conference event

“and the Soviets thought to extend, instead halted. In July 1945, Truman met with Stalin and British leaders at Potsdam, Germany. They talked of arrangements for the Eastern Europe and the work of Allied control councils in the occupied coun…”

“The Allies publicly resolved jointly to ban all German production of weapons, ships, airplanes, and other implements of war. Germany's manufacturing of chemicals, steel, machine tools, and other items directly necessary for a war economy ha…”

“The largest share of reparations were going to go to the Soviet Union, which had paid the heaviest price as far as dead bodies. But Britain, France, Belgium, and even colonial India were going to get a piece of the reparations. Detailed pro…”

“According to his own account, William Draper never had any intention of implementing the Potsdam Agreement or any other Washington policy on denazification or decarteling of German industry. Draper considered such programs to be naive and c…”

“The U.S. military governor in Germany explained it in an interview sometime later. Quote, the Joint Chiefs of Staff directive would have been extremely difficult to operate under. It was modified constantly, not officially, but by allowing …”

“We did not fight this war to destroy one dictatorship and build up another. We must preserve counterbalance against Russia. Colonel Robert Story, the U.S. Executive Trial Counsel at the International Military Tribunal and senior aide to Rob…”

“Major, this is a quote, Major Scully denounced the denazification program as a witch hunt. And Lieutenant Colonel Oettinger, chief of the U.S. efforts to denazify Germany's bank, banking system, declared that it would drive the German peopl…”

“Major, this is a quote, Major Scully denounced the denazification program as a witch hunt. And Lieutenant Colonel Oettinger, chief of the U.S. efforts to denazify Germany's bank, banking system, declared that it would drive the German peopl…”