The division of the booty
The division of the booty: The Potsdam Conference 1945 (in the US-American Original Meeting at Potsdam ) is a historical work by Charles L. Mee from 1975. It deals with the course of the Potsdam Conference .
Charles L. Mee describes the Potsdam Conference in great detail. He pays special attention to the carelessness with which “ great politics ” in the form of Josef Stalin , Harry S. Truman and Winston Churchill and, later, Clement Attlee, determine the fate of entire peoples. While it is ostensibly about a peaceful reorganization of Europe , in the background national interests, reparations payments, material assets, territorial gains and the struggle for spheres of influence determine the negotiations.
In Charles L. Mee's work, the movements of the participants are meticulously listed. Often, always based on sources such as biographies and transcripts of conversations, the impression is given that the report was written by an omniscient narrator .
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- Charles L. Mee: The Division of the Booty . The Potsdam Conference 1945. Fritz Molden, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-453-48060-0 (English: Meeting at Potsdam . Translated by Renata Mettenheimer).