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.

In the Potsdam Agreement ( Berlin Conference ) the Allies ( UK, USSR, USA ) agree:

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 )

It was only during the mid-18th century that visible brick walls regained some degree of popularity, as illustrated by the Dutch Quarter of Potsdam, for example.

Ernst Haeckel was born on February 16, 1834, in Potsdam ( then part of Prussia ).

Almost all Germans who returned or remained were expelled as the city was annexed by the Soviet Union and ceded to Poland in spring 1945, a decision by Stalin with full consent of the western Allies in the Potsdam Conference.

This propaganda narrative was officially abandoned at the end of Pacific War when the Japanese government accepted the 1945 Potsdam Declaration.

File: Bundesarchiv Bild 170-415, Potsdam, Französische Straße. jpg | Algarotti was involved in the design of the Französische Kirche in Potsdam ; picture taken just after the war

Frederick William died in 1740 at age 51 and was interred at the Garrison Church in Potsdam.

At the Potsdam Conference, Germany was divided into four military occupation zones by the Allies and did not regain independence until 1949.

After the defeat of Nazi Germany during World War II, Liegnitz and all of Silesia east of the Neisse river was transferred to Poland following the Potsdam Conference in 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 Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm Hohenzollern, in Potsdam, occupied Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945.

In addition, it was at the Potsdam Conference that Truman became aware of possible complications elsewhere, when Stalin objected to Churchill's proposal for an early allied withdrawal from Iran, ahead of the agreed upon schedule set at the Tehran Conference.

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 "):

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.

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

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.

The Potsdam Gate itself was redesignated the Leipziger Tor ( Leipzig Gate ) around the same time, but reverted to its old name a few years later.

In this respect the Potsdam Gate was a dividing line between two different worlds.

In the Yalta and Potsdam conferences, the Allies established their joint military occupation and administration of Germany via the Allied Control Council ( ACC ), a four-power ( US, UK, USSR, France ) military government effective until the restoration of German sovereignty.

* 1945 – World War II: the leaders of the three Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin, meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.

A majority of the German-speaking population was expelled in accordance with the decision of the victorious Allied powers at their 1945 meeting at Potsdam.

Following the Potsdam Conference agreements the Soviets and then Polish administration expelled most of those Warmia Germans remaining to Western part of Germany under the Allied rule, unless in the Polish voivodeship they declared themselves Polish speakers.

* July 17 – August 2 – WWII – Potsdam Conference: At Potsdam, the three main Allied leaders hold their final summit of the war.

* The Potsdam Conference, code-named “ Terminal ”, the last Allied meeting of World War II

On 26 July 1945, Allied leaders Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman, and Chiang Kai-shek issued the Potsdam Declaration, which demanded Japan's unconditional surrender.

The wording of the Potsdam Declaration —" The Japanese Government shall remove all obstacles ..."— and the initial postsurrender measures taken by Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers ( SCAP ), suggest that neither he nor his superiors in Washington intended to impose a new political system on Japan unilaterally.

To circumvent President Truman's anti-Nazi order and the Allied Potsdam and Yalta agreements, the JIOA worked independently to create false employment and political biographies for the scientists.

At the mid-summer Potsdam Conference, taking place shortly after Germany's defeat, the leaders of the Allied Powers temporarily designated the Oder-Neisse line as the new border between Germany and Poland until a final peace treaty confirming the end of the war.

The city was subsequently put under Polish administration by the Allied Potsdam Agreement, and Polish settlers were brought in to replace the German population.

The majority of those who survived the war in Ukraine were forcibly deported to the Former eastern territories of Germany after Poland was shifted to the West by the Allied Potsdam Agreement after World War II.

Alfred Ludwig Heinrich Karl Graf von Waldersee ( 8 April 1832, Potsdam – 5 March 1904, Hanover ) was a German Generalfeldmarschall who served as Chief of the Imperial German General Staff from 1888 to 1891 and as Allied Supreme Commander in China in 1900-1901.

The government of Japan used the term as a response to Allied demands in the Potsdam Declaration for unconditional surrender in World War II, which influenced President Harry S. Truman's decision to order the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Later that day in a press conference, the word was again used by the Premier Kantarō Suzuki to dismiss the Potsdam Declarations as a mere rehash of earlier rejected Allied proposals, and therefore, being of no value, would be killed off by silent contempt ( mokusatsu ).

As a result of the Potsdam Conference, where Western Allied governments refused to recognize Groza's administration, King Michael called on Groza to resign.

The Allied dismantling of the West German coal and steel industries decided at the Potsdam Conference was virtually completed by 1950 ; equipment had then been removed from 706 manufacturing plants in the west and steel production capacity had been reduced by 6, 700, 000 tons.

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 ".

As the Second World War was nearing its end, on 26 July 1945, Allied leaders Winston Churchill, Harry S Truman, and Chiang Kai-Shek issued the Potsdam Declaration, which demanded Japan's unconditional surrender.

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.