For two weeks in the summer of 1945, from
July 17 to August 2, Harry Truman, Winston
Churchill, and Josef Stalin gathered to recon-
struct the world out of the ruins left by the
Second World War. They met only a few miles,"
as President Truman noted, "from the war-
shattered seat of Nazi power around a baize-
covered table in the Cecilienhof Palace at
Potsdam, a suburb of Berlin, a place they later
remembered vividly for its hardy mosquitos and
muggy heat.
First in Teheran (November 1943), then in
Yalta (February 1945), the Allied powers had
met, engaging in the cordial horse-trading of
properties and promises, to perpetuate a united
military front against Germany. Potsdam, how-
ever, was different. With Germany defeated, the
Allies knew victory in the Far East was immi-
nent. The objective was no longer how to unite
for victory, but how instead to divide the spoils
and create a new balance of power. In MEETING
AT POTSDAM, Charles Mee demonstrates how,
with national self-interest the primary motiva-
tion, peace was destined to be sacrificed to
deliberate discord. If Allied harmony would
stand in the way of expanding "spheres of in-
fluence," then it would become necessary to
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