When eventually relieved of his duties in 1906, Lamsdorf prided himself on having maintained a position equidistant from both Potsdam and Buckingham Palace.

On the day of the armistice, Ludendorff disguised himself in a false beard and glasses and went to the home of his brother, astronomer Hans Ludendorff, in Potsdam.

SUNY Potsdam athletics were recently placed in NCAA probation due to an inadvertent error in the awarding of international student grants was noticed.

A variety of methods to establish this reference frame link before catalogue publication were included and appropriately weighted: interferometric observations of radio stars by VLBI networks, MERLIN and VLA ; observations of quasars relative to Hipparcos stars using CCDs, photographic plates, and the Hubble Space Telescope ; photographic programmes to determine stellar proper motions with respect to extragalactic objects ( Bonn, Kiev, Lick, Potsdam, Yale / San Juan ); and comparison of Earth rotation parameters obtained by VLBI and by ground-based optical observations of Hipparcos stars.

The Potsdam Agreement was the Allied ( UK, US, USSR ) plan of tripartite military occupation and reconstruction of Germany — referring to the German Reich with its pre-war 1937 borders including the former eastern territories — and the entire European Theatre of War territory.

In November 1949, during the Potsdam Conference, the United Nations granted Italy trusteeship of Italian Somaliland, but only under close supervision and on the condition — first proposed by the Somali Youth League ( SYL ) and other nascent Somalian political organizations, such as Hizbia Digil Mirifle Somali ( HDMS ) and the Somali National League ( SNL )— that Somalia achieve independence within ten years.

After the war, according to the preliminary agreements of the conferences of Yalta and Potsdam, the German territories east of the Oder-Neisse line — most of Pomerania, Silesia and East Prussia — were transferred to Poland and the surviving Germans expelled.

At the Potsdam Conference ( July 16 to August 2, 1945 ), after Germany's unconditional surrender on 8 May 1945, the Allies divided " Occupation Zone Germany " into four military occupation zones — France in the southwest, Britain in the northwest, the United States in the south, and the Soviet Union in the east.

At Potsdam, it had been agreed that 15 % of all equipment dismantled in the Western zones — especially from the metallurgical, chemical, and machine manufacturing industries — would be transferred to the Soviets in return for food, coal, potash ( a basic material for fertilisers ), timber, clay products, petroleum products, etc.

After the war, the town — together with the southern two-thirds of East Prussia — was placed under Polish administration according to the 1945 Potsdam Conference.

* Silly + Gundermann & Seilschaft Unplugged, 1999 — Live album with Gerhard Gundermann, recorded in Potsdam in 1994

The initial overall combination of colours — grey Gloucester limestone and grey Nepean, red Potsdam, and buff Ohio sandstones, as well as purple and green slate banding — conformed to the picturesque style known as structural polychromy.

By the time of the Potsdam Conference however, General Douglas MacArthur — as commander of Allied land forces for the proposed invasion — was insisting that: the total Commonwealth land forces involved should be only three divisions ; a combined Commonwealth corps should be formed and that it would operate as part of a US Army ; it should use only US equipment and logistics ; it should be kept in reserve rather than taking part in initial landings and ; it should not include Indian Army units, due to " linguistic and administrative complications ".

Foreign Film Award “ Kleingeld ( Small Change )”, Marc-Andreas Bochert --- Hochschule für Fernsehen “ Konrad Wolf ”, Potsdam — Babelsberg, Germany

In the treaty, both sides committed themselves to nonviolence and accepted the existing border — the Oder-Neisse line, imposed on Germany by the Allied powers at the 1945 Potsdam Conference following the end of World War II.

At the time the treaty was signed, it was not seen as the last word on the Polish border in West Germany, because Article IV of this treaty stated that previous treaties like the Potsdam Agreement were not superseded by this latest agreement, so the provisions of this treaty could be changed by a final peace treaty between Germany and the Allies of World War II — as provided for in the Potsdam Agreement.

* de Zayas, Alfred M .: Nemesis at Potsdam.

* Alfred M. de Zayas: Nemesis at Potsdam.

* Filmmuseum Potsdam, 2 / 12, M. Welte & Söhne, 1928 / 29

* Grigoriev, M., nda, ice-affected pebble beach of Stolbovoy Island Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research-Research Unit Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

* Grigoriev, M., ndb, rocky cliffs ( 15-70 m high ) of Stolbovoy Island Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research-Research Unit Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

The King acquired a reputation for his fondness for military display, leading to his special efforts to hire the tallest men he could find in all of Europe for a special regiment nicknamed the Potsdam Giants.

In that position, he was one of the chief proponents for acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration which, he felt, contained the best conditions for peace Japan could hope to be offered.

A regional, ellipsoidal datum like ED50 can be fixed by prescribing the undulation of the geoid and the deflection of the vertical in one datum point, in this case the Helmert Tower in Potsdam.

In 1955, the USSR declared the Soviet occupation zone – the historic middle portion of Germany – to be a sovereign state named the Deutsche Demokratische Republik ( German Democratic Republic, established in 1949 ), while the Red Army and the Western Allies ' occupation forces remained in place under the tripartite Potsdam Agreement ( 1945 ) which established the Allied Occupation of Germany.

Moreover, towards concluding the Pacific Theatre of War, the Potsdam Conference issued the Potsdam Declaration, the Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender ( 26 July 1945 ) wherein the Western Allies ( UK, US, USSR ) and the Nationalist China of General Chiang Kai-shek asked Japan to surrender or be destroyed.

The history of Potsdamer Platz can probably be traced back to 29 October 1685, when the Tolerance Edict of Potsdam was signed, whereby Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg-Prussia from 1640 to 1688, allowed large numbers of religious refugees, including Jews from Austria and Huguenots expelled from France, to settle on his territory.

Not a great lover of Berlin, he later built a new palace, the Sanssouci, at Potsdam in 1744-7, followed by the New Palace in 1763-9, so the road now had to be made fit for a King, plus all his courtiers and staff.

Under both schemes the old rural intersection just outside the Potsdam Gate, and the Octagon ( Leipziger Platz ) just inside, were to be joined together to create a long rectangular space, with a gargantuan edifice standing in the middle of it.

The railway first came to Berlin in 1838, with the opening of the Potsdamer Bahnhof, terminus of a 26 km line linking the city with Potsdam, opened throughout by 29 October ( in 1848 the line would be extended to Magdeburg and beyond ).

The Potsdam Conference of 1945 concluded that the Oder-Neisse would be the official border between Germany and Poland.

It was situated between Mecklenburg and the Province of Pomerania on the north, and the Province of Saxony on the south and west ( Berlin, with a small surrounding district, was an urban governorate and enclave within the governorate of Potsdam between 1815 and 1822, then it merged as urban district into the governorate only to be disentangled again from Potsdam governorate in 1875, becoming an own distinct province-like entity on 1 April 1881 ).

The conference resulted in ( 1 ) the Potsdam Declaration regarding the surrender of Japan, and ( 2 ) the Potsdam Agreement regarding the Soviet annexation of former Polish territory east of the Curzon Line, and, provisions, to be addressed in an eventual Final Treaty ending World War 2, for the annexation of parts of Germany east of the Oder-Neisse line into Poland, and northern East Prussia into the Soviet Union.

" On 26 July 1945, the three governments issued the Potsdam Declaration, declaring that " the terms of the Cairo Declaration shall be carried out.

It was agreed at Potsdam that the leading members of the Nazi regime who had been captured should be put on trial accused of crimes against humanity, and this was one of the few points on which the four powers were able to agree.

Byrnes had some questionable history: he agreed at Potsdam in July 1945 to " temporarily assign " an area of southern Silesia to " Polish Administration " which was more than the Poles and Soviets had expected to be agreed to.

The Japanese government on 10 August communicated its intention to surrender under the terms of the Potsdam Declaration, but with too many conditions for the offer to be acceptable to the Allies.

Earlier the same day, the Japanese government had broadcast an announcement over Radio Tokyo that " acceptance of the Potsdam Proclamation be coming soon ," and had advised the Allies of the surrender by sending a cable to U. S. President Harry S Truman via the Swiss diplomatic mission in Washington, D. C. A nation-wide broadcast by President Truman was aired at seven o ' clock p. m. ( daylight time in Washington, D. C .) on August 14 announcing the communication and that the formal event was scheduled for September 2.

: Not to be confused with the German University of Potsdam in Berlin-Brandenburg

The Potsdam Model is “ based on the premise that the study of pure mathematics can be undertaken successfully by a large number of students if they are provided with a supportive environment including: careful and considerate teaching by a well-trained and dedicated faculty, continual encouragement, successful ( student ) role models, enough success to develop self-esteem, enough time to develop intellectually, recognition of their achievement, and the belief that the study is a worthwhile endeavor .”

The agreements reached were provisional ones that would be finalised by " a peace settlement for Germany to be accepted by the Government of Germany when a government adequate for the purpose is established " ( Potsdam Agreement 1. 3. 1 ).

After distressful attempts to gain a living, he caught the attention of a patron in Hanover and entered a gymnasium ; however, he soon accepted an engagement as actor under Ekhof at Gotha, failing in which he returned to study ( 1776 ) at Erfurt ; but tiring again be joined the Herrnhuter ( Moravian Church ) at Barby, and studied theology at Wittenberg ( 1777 ); then taught philanthropy at the Potsdam military orphanage, soon again to take to wandering.