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Potsdam Conference

17 Jul 1945 – 2 Aug 1945 · Cecilienhof Palace, Potsdam

Stalin, Truman and Churchill (replaced by Attlee after the British election) met at Cecilienhof from 17 July to 2 August 1945. They agreed on the demilitarisation, denazification and division of Germany into four occupation zones, placed the German territories east of the Oder and Lusatian Neisse under Polish administration pending a peace treaty, and sanctioned the transfer of German populations from Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary.

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