Diary August 2, 1945

War Diary, 08-1945, Diary WW2, Year 1945 / 1 minute of reading

Attlee, Truman, Stalin at Potsdam — From Hitler‘s major opponents finally only Stalin (right) remains on the Potsdam Conference. Roosevelt had died before the wars end and Churchill was voted out in July 1945. They are replaced by Truman (center) and the British Labour leader Attlee (left).

Diary for Thursday, August 2, 1945:

Politics

Attlee, Truman and Stalin agree at Potsdam to place sharp curbs on German industrial power; USSR to annex East Prussia and Poland to take over large segment of East Germany.

Home Fronts

Italy: Death of Pietro Mascagni, composer of Cavalleria Rusticana, aged 81.
Britain: King George VI receives President Truman aboard HMS Renown at Plymouth.

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My name is Norman 'Kretaner' and since my childhood I am interested in history and strategy games. Later, I have learned programming and the development of computer games, and finally with the Internet, also web design. I'm in the fortunate position to combine all my interests with my work and to live on a place of my choice, on Crete. All information, figures, specifications and statistics used here had been compiled from a variety of sources and the large, over decades collected, library of the author about military history, WW2 and weapons.

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