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First Post-War Presidential Visit

President Truman visited Germany about two months after the end of World War II to participate in the watershed Potsdam Conference. The purpose of the meeting with the other heads of states of the victorious powers, Great Britain and Soviet Union, was to put the resolutions drafted at the Yalta conference into action. Truman, Churchill and Stalin discussed the partitioning of the post-war world and resolving the problems of the war in the Far East. It was to be Truman's only presidential trip to Germany during his eight-year term that lasted until 1953. Bildunterschrift:

President Truman visited Germany about two months after the end of World War II to participate in the watershed Potsdam Conference. The purpose of the meeting with the other heads of states of the victorious powers, Great Britain and Soviet Union, was to put the resolutions drafted at the Yalta conference into action. Truman, Churchill and Stalin discussed the partitioning of the post-war world and resolving the problems of the war in the Far East. It was to be Truman's only presidential trip to Germany during his eight-year term that lasted until 1953.

 

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