This seemingly charming and beautiful,Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam, Germany was the scene of of a conference after the World War II and where the decision to bomb two cities in Japan was taken.
It was built from 1914 to 1917 in the layout of an English Tudor manor house, with many chimneys. Chimneys were supposed to represent English homes.
From July 17–August 2, 1945 an, Allied conference of World War II was held at Potsdam. The chief participants were U.S. President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (or Clement Attlee, who became prime minister during the conference), and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin.
The disscussion was on substance and procedures of the peace settlements in Europe and “administration of defeated Germany, the demarcation of the boundaries of Poland, the occupation of Austria, the definition of the Soviet Union’s role in eastern Europe, the determination of reparations, and the further prosecution of the war against Japan.”
It was here that President Harry S. Truman received word of the success of the Trinity test and the final decision to drop the atomic bomb, was made the following day, July 25.
We all know the consequences of that bomb.
I hope we have also learnt from it.