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.

Yet, seven years after the Allies ’ Potsdam Agreement to a unified Germany, the USSR via the Stalin Note ( 10 March 1952 ) proposed German reunification and superpower disengagement from Central Europe, which the three Western Allies ( US, France, UK ) rejected.

In that year, it was occupied by the Soviet Union and annexed according to the Potsdam Agreement.

The transfer to Poland decided at Potsdam in 1945 was officially recognized by East Germany in 1950, by West Germany under Chancellor Willy Brandt in the Treaty of Warsaw signed in 1970, and finally by the reunited Germany by the Two Plus Four Agreement in 1990.

In addition to the Potsdam Agreement, on 26 July, Churchill, Truman, and Chiang Kai-shek, Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China ( the Soviet Union was not at war with Japan ) issued the Potsdam Declaration which outlined the terms of surrender for Japan during World War II in Asia.

" On the Implementation of the Potsdam Agreement: an Essay on U. S. Postwar German Policy.

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.

Though the Potsdam Agreement only refers to Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary, expulsions also occurred in Romania, where the Transylvanian Saxons were deported and their property disseized, or in Yugoslavia.

After World War II ended in 1945, Pomesania returned to Poland according to the Potsdam Agreement.

After World War II, most of the German population within the Polish and Czechoslovak Sudetes was forcibly expelled on the basis of the Potsdam Agreement and the Beneš decrees.

Following the Potsdam Agreement, the western allies handed over Mecklenburg to the Soviets.

On 2 August 1945, the city was placed under Polish administration by the Soviets ( according to the Potsdam Agreement ) and officially renamed to Polish Olsztyn.

The program of denazification was launched after the end of the Second World War and was solidified by the Potsdam Agreement.

Some historians have argued that the Potsdam Agreement included written rights of land access to the western sectors, whereas no such written guarantees had covered the western sectors of Berlin.

According to the post-war Potsdam Agreement, the city was placed under Polish administration and renamed Koszalin.

The town was placed under Polish administration, followed by the post-war Potsdam Agreement.

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.

During this time about 600 people committed suicide. As Lębork, the town was placed under Polish administration according to the post-war Potsdam Agreement.

Another 100 years later, in 1945, the town became part of Poland, as a result of the Potsdam Agreement.

After World War II according to the Potsdam Agreement, Lusatia was divided between Allied-occupied Germany ( Soviet occupation zone ) and the Republic of Poland along the Oder-Neisse line.

This had been their official position as early as the Potsdam Agreement in August 1945.

* Potsdam Agreement ( 1945 )

His father, Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand von Bismarck ( Schönhausen, 13 November 1771 – 22 November 1845 ), was a Junker estate owner and a former Prussian military officer ; his mother, Wilhelmine Luise Mencken ( Potsdam, 24 February 1789 – Berlin ), the well-educated daughter of a senior government official in Berlin.

The monarch, though initially inclined to use armed forces to suppress the rebellion, ultimately declined to leave Berlin for the safety of military headquarters at Potsdam ( Bismarck later recorded that there had been a " rattling of sabres in their scabbards " from Prussian officers when they learned that the King would not suppress the revolution by force ).

The Conference of Berlin ( Potsdam Conference, 1945 ) 2 vols.

* United States Department of State Foreign relations of the United States: diplomatic papers: the Conference of Berlin ( the Potsdam Conference ) 1945 Volume I Washington, D. C .: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1945

* United States Department of State Foreign relations of the United States: diplomatic papers: the Conference of Berlin ( the Potsdam Conference ) 1945 Volume II Washington, D. C .: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1945

* Agreements of the Berlin ( Potsdam ) Conference

In the Three Power Conference of Berlin ( formal title of the Potsdam Conference ) from 17 July to 2 August 1945, they agreed to and adopted the Protocol of the Proceedings, August l, 1945, signed at Cecilienhof Castle in Potsdam.

Already during the Potsdam Conference, on 30 July 1945, the Allied Control Council was constituted in Berlin to execute the Allied resolutions ( the " 5D's "):

* Agreements of the Berlin ( Potsdam ) Conference

Potsdamer Platz (, literally Potsdam Square ) is an important public square and traffic intersection in the centre of Berlin, Germany, lying about one kilometre south of the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag ( German Parliament Building ), and close to the southeast corner of the Tiergarten park.

It is named after the city of Potsdam, some 25 km to the south west, and marks the point where the old road from Potsdam passed through the city wall of Berlin at the Potsdam Gate.

Starting in 1754 a daily stagecoach ran between Berlin and Potsdam, although the road was in poor shape.

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.

It later became Potsdamer Straße ; its point of entry into Berlin, where it passed through the customs wall, became the Potsdamer Tor ( Potsdam Gate ); once inside the gate Leipziger Straße was its eastwards continuation, and Wilhelmstraße was the first north-south thoroughfare that intersected with it.

It was not called that until 8 July 1831, but the area outside the Potsdam Gate began to develop in the early 19th century as a district of quiet villas, for as Berlin became even more congested, many of its richer citizens moved outside the customs wall and built spacious new homes around the trading post, along the newly developing boulevards, and around the southern edge of the Tiergarten.

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 ).

In Berlin on 1 October 1791, William married his first cousin ( Frederica Louisa ) Wilhelmina, born in Potsdam.

Potsdam () is the capital city of the German federal state of Brandenburg and part of the Berlin / Brandenburg Metropolitan Region.

Babelsberg, in the south-eastern part of Potsdam, was a major film production studio before the war and has enjoyed increased success as a major centre of European film production since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

In 1815, at the formation of the Province of Brandenburg, Potsdam became the provincial capital until 1918, however, interrupted and succeeded by Berlin as provincial capital between 1827 and 1843, and after 1918.