The Potsdam Conference - When the Cold War began

We should never help Stalin to push Germans away out of the soviet borders. Russians did not deserve our help. We all suffer due to that.

According to Giles Milton (Checkmate in Berlin), Stalin had rail cars taken out of a museum to make an impressive entrance in Potsdam.

What caused tension between the Allie at the Potsdam conference

Anyone know when this film was made?

We always see what God did after God has done it like Abraham his descendants had to go to Egypt and then Moses was going to bring them back in 400 years

Stalin got all the credit for the victory of world war II you want to be the leader when the war ends you can claim the victory it doesn't matter who won it just who survived the strongest in China chairman Mao z tongue Zedong.

devide to rule.... all three members of the same club....knights templer

The imposition of the Oder-Niesse line was a petty and vindictive act of revenge. Lands were given to Poland that had been German for 1,000 years. A fairer settlement would have been to let Poland keep the Lwow region and gain all of East Prussia, Danzig and upper Silesia only.

No disrespect to Winston but he was depressed and didn't want to deal with it cos he was hungover...legend

The funny thing is Churchill absolutely knew Stalin wasn’t going to keep his word, Eastern Europe was his & he wasn’t gonna give it up.

In reality world war 2 ended in 1991.

Truman wasnt wrong

Ich kämpfe bis letze man tod ist.. gegen Stalin und chorcil bis letze Blut.

Fucking Stalin was same evil like Hitler maybe more, and he stay at table to split the world. I hope.he burn in hell with his friend Hitler.

Treaty not signed... War July 27. My Birthday

why did roosevelt have to die he was so close to seeing the end he was good man 😥😥

We did it stalin we chalked up a win

The evil triumvirate, who were at each other’s throat as soon as the hostilities on European main-land ended !

Once a cheater always a cheater.

Religion is the opium of the masses - Karl Marx
Yes, but opium is also the opium of the masses - Britain

the advance technology of Europe divide the world among themselves British India documentary Sir Jeremy Paxman Treaty of Tordesillas

That was very very interesting, there's so much we still don't know, thanks for your help.

As many have alrerady said, thank you for preserving history, briliant footage, and well put together video :)

Very interesting video! Thanks for publishing it!

Today's meeting will go some way in redressing this

It's good to establish some boundaries and ethics early on....

British empire met its end, since war monger Churchill dug tomb for the Nation step by step on Boer war, Gallipoli disaster ww1, Norway fiasco ww2 et

The Potsdam Conference was the confirmation of the division and subjugation of Europe between the Victorious Anglo Saxon Powers and the Soviet Union. This included the US policy of further granting Territories to their military ally, the Soviets, by gifting them the Japanese Kuril Islands for the empty promises made by Stalin to join their war against Japan. The question of the Kuril Islands remains an unresolved issue to this date. The Japanese Government has requested the return of these Islands from the Russian Federation. The conference was a friendly meeting between the victorious military alliance of the US, Great Britain and the Soviet Union, after the completion of the Second World War in 1945.

cold war became with operation sunrise, the pact between americans and hitler to move german troops in east against russians, what stalin said at yalta before posdam

The volume is too low you dumb shit

to say you fight for peace is little ironic.

Generally a good video, with great footage. However, some big gaps: especially no mention of the Yalta conference a few months before - when exactly the same agenda was debated for 8 days and most key issues firmed-up. Since then: the Russians had failed to carry through what they agreed to do re Poland; and the Americans had a successful atomic bomb test (Truman was told this during the Potsdam conference). This latter news meant that the imperative of getting Russian involvement in the war with Japan fell away - and that was one of the top two things Roosevelt got from Yalta. Also this news changed the Potsdam dynamic completely - suddenly the USA was top dog, and Truman made that plain. This dramatically increased the paranoia of Stalin. Also, remember that, though Truman had been US Vice-President under Roosevelt, he had been excluded from Yalta and never been overseas (except once some time ago). And Churchill was replaced during the conference. So, overall, Potsdam failed in its intention to consolidate Yalta - quite the opposite. The rest is history.
BTW, the reason the plenary sessions started in the afternoon, was that the evenings and mornings were needed for working sessions by the hordes of officials led by the foreign secretaries (Eden, Molotov, Byrnes) to come up with recommendations & detailed proposals fleshing-out basics agreed by the heads of state the previous afternoon.

I think maybe it would have more sence for Hitler to not have invaded Russia at all

I mean really Stalin was the biggest mass murderer in history the only thing that killed more was the burbonic black death that all Most wiped Europe. Out in 1347 to 1351

They should have. sent Patton to meet stalin

Well done...some analysis a bit tough upon Truman who tried to have the Big 3 get along.

UN ALCOHOLICO Y ,UN ENFERMO EN SUS ULTIMOS DIAS ENTREGARON EUROPA AL DEMONIO COMUNISTA STALIN,,,, TODO LO GANADO LO PERDIERON EN POSTDAM

you fucking traitors

In 1933 the Reichstag building burnt down

Whats were resolutions which reached during Potsdam conference?

Didn't talk about Molotov

where was france actually?

Unlike the Middle East today, Germany accepted defeat and got on with rebuilding the country with the help of the US, UK and USSR

It happened in 1945 and now I see the actual footage in 2017. Thanks for preserving and providing this original film footage for us to view 70 years later.

Voiceover vs. subtitles - voiceover can be done in a different tone which changes the sense of the words.

what if USSR didn't collapse?

Really good! Thanks for publishing it