"The Potsdam Conference: 75 Years Later" Webinar

With Europe lying in tatters following Germany’s defeat in World War II, the leaders of the “Big Three” gathered in Potsdam to outline a plan for peace. President Harry S. Truman, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill gathered to determine the fate of post-war Europe in this historic conference that laid the foundation for international relations in the coming decades.
"The Potsdam Conference: 75 Years Later," was a webinar presented on July 22, 2020, in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Potsdam Conference, and featured Michael Neiberg, whose book "Potsdam: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe" won the 2016 Truman Book Award.

[@jasonpalacios1363]

They should have listened to General George S. Patton about the USSR.

[@michaelinhouston9086]

Nobody cared what he said. The American public was sick and tired of the war and wanted the soldiers home. Go back and read newspapers of the time and listen to the radio news reports. There is no way the military command and enlisted men would have bought into trying to drive the commie army out of Europe - it is doubtful they could have done it anyway as the commies had far more resources in Eastern Europe than the US and the British. There were soldiers that let it be known that they would refuse to go to the Pacific to fight the Japanese because they had done their job of defeating Germany. I recall reading of the fear of the military command that soldiers would mutiny on ships taking them to the Pacific. Does anybody really believe those soldiers would have accepted starting a new war against anybody?

[@thomaswilliams373]

You’re playing fast and loose with other people’s lives. Beyond that, the U.S. was still at war with Japan. No one knew then when the Pacific War would end and at what cost…

[@Kyanzes]

I love this argument about "letting the Americans and British see the devastation in Berlin as they arrived to the airport to travel to Potsdam" - you mean the devastation caused by themselves, right? I love the argument, you know, the wifebeater "see what you made me do?" - LOL. Sure, historically, since they lost, the Germans are the bad guys. But the Soviets did so much bad, caused so much pain and massacred tens of millions. The "good Soviets" huh? Rolling-eyes. - It's still a very good content, wish it was longer, would worth 2-3 hours.