The first English-language podcast on the Eastern Front of World War 2 looks at the decisions that shaped the world order.
Jimmy, do you realize we have been here seventeen whole days? Why in seventeen days you can decide anything!”
—President Harry S Truman to U.S. Secretary of State James Byrnes at Potsdam, 2 August 1945.
In July and August, the leaders and delegations from the “Big Three” victors of the Second World War reshape the borders of Europe and set up a new world order.
Maps
Map 1: German territorial losses after World War 2
Map 2: Polish territorial changes and losses after Word War 2
Map 3: Allied occupation of Germany
Map 4: Allied occupation of Austria
Map 5: Hungarian territorial losses, 1945
Map 6: Transfer of northern Bukovina and Bessarabia to USSR, 1945
Historical photos
US Secretary of State James Byrnes and President Harry Truman on board the USS Augusta en route to Potsdam Conference, July 1945.
Polish Air Force pilots in RAF, UK, 1940
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, Prime Minister of Polish Government-in-Exile
Little Boy and Fat Man atomic bombs (replicas_.
