On this day in history, July 17, 1945, after Nazi Germany's surrender in World War II, the Potsdam Conference outside Berlin, Germany, began, with Truman, Churchill and Stalin.

His eyes bloodshot and his legs stiff with fatigue, an allied occupation official gulped his sixth cup of coffee shortly before dawn one day last week. Wearily he trudged back to a room where, for ...

After the war, Austria was also divided into different zones of Allied occupation as Germany was, in punishment for its complicity in Nazi crimes. Czechoslovakia. Tom Korcak / Shutterstock.com.

The occupation of Germany was entering a new phase. By partitioning eastern Germany, the Allies had destroyed the old Reich. By quartering what was left into occupation zones, the Allies had ...

Some of the soldiers of the Jewish Brigade will probably serve in the Allied army of occupation in Germany, Moshe Shertok, chief of the political department of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, ...

Germany to supply Allies with coal or risk Ruhr occupation | The Century Ireland project is an online historical newspaper that tells the story of the events of Irish life a century ago ...