Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1980 (Creation)
- 1945 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
2 reels
Scope and content
Potsdam Conference Documents, 1945: The Presidential Documents Series is a themed microfilm collection including the personal and official documents and correspondence of President Harry S Truman during proceedings of the Potsdam Conference, 29 Mar-2 Aug 1945. Papers are drawn from a variety of originating bodies including US President Harry S Truman; US Gen of the Army George Catlett Marshall; US Gen of the Army Douglas MacArthur; Gen Dwight David Eisenhower, Supreme Commander Allied Forces Europe; George Frost Kennan, US Chargé d'affaires in Moscow; Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, Prime Minister of Great Britain (until 26 Jul 1945); Rt Hon Clement Richard Attlee, Prime Minister of Great Britain (after 28 Jul 1945); Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek; Soviet Premier Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin; the US Joint Chiefs of Staff; and the Combined Chiefs of Staff. Papers relate to US foreign policy concerning the reconstruction of Western Europe; the partition, de-nazification, demilitarisation, and future reparations payments of Germany; the trial of major war criminals; the unconditional surrender of Japan; former Axis satellite states; Austria; Yugoslavia; the withdrawal of Allied forces from Iran; the retention of Allied forces in Italy; Lend-Lease liquidation; Bulgarian reparations payments to Greece; the reconstruction of Poland, Czechoslovakia; Yugoslavia and the Balkans; Anglo-Soviet rivalry in the Middle East; civil affairs in China.
System of arrangement
Arranged into the following sections based on subject of material and origination: the diary kept by President Truman at the Potsdam Conference; agenda and supplementary documents; background information on Europe, economic matters, the Near East, and the Far East; territorial studies; US bilateral discussions with the USSR and Great Britain; US Joint Chiefs of Staff memoranda and recommendations; papers and minutes of the Combined Chiefs of Staff; minutes of meetings with heads of government; minutes of meetings of foreign ministers; correspondence of President Truman with heads of government; miscellaneous documents; report on the Tripartite Conference of Berlin. Each section is arranged chronologically therein.
General Information
Repository
Custodial history
University Publications of America, Inc., Bethesda, MD, with published fully indexed guide edited by Paul Kesaris.
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies may be printed off the microfilm/microfiche for research purposes and are charged at cost.
Enquiries concerning the copyright of the original material should be addressed to University Publications of America Inc.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Finding aids
This collection level description. The following published guide is available in the Reading Room: Paul Kesaris (ed.), Potsdam Conference Documents, 1945: The Presidential Documents Series (University Publications of America, Inc, Bethesda, MD, 1980).
Note
Compiled Jul 1999
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Boundaries
- Development aid
- Diplomacy
- Economic aid
- Economic relations
- Foreign policy
- Foreign relations
- Humanitarian law
- Interdependence
- International conflicts
- International economic relations
- International instruments
- International law
- International relations
- Military government
- Nazism
- Occupied territories
- Political doctrines
- Political systems
- Rights of states
- Territorial rights
- Totalitarianism
- War
- War crimes
- World wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
- Wars (events)
People and Organisations
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.