Churchill, Truman and Stalin during the Potsdam Conference in 1945

From left to right: The English Prime Minister Winston Churchill (1874–1965), the American President Harry S. Truman (1884–1972) and the General Secretary of the CPSU Josef W. Stalin (1879–1953) at the Potsdam Conference (17/07–02/08/1945). The representatives of the three major victorious powers signed the Potsdam Agreement. It provided for the occupation, demilitarisation, denazification and democratisation of Germany as well as an "orderly transfer" of the remaining German population in present Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary to Germany.

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