Truman’s Potsdam visit
The travel register records Harry S. Truman visiting Potsdam, Germany, from July 16 to August 2, 1945, for the Potsdam Conference with British Prime Ministers Churchill and Attlee and Soviet Premier Stalin.
What this does and does not establish
Office of the Historian travel register, trip ID 2734; the table and XML agree. These are visit limits, not dates of individual meetings. The XML creation and modification timestamps in 2010 are metadata dates. Neighboring entries concern separate visits to Belgium and the United Kingdom.
- Region
- Europe
- Theme
- Politics and institutions
- Kind of record
- Placed in a year. A source places this in one year. It is listed under that year; no day precision is invented.
How it is dated
- Date reference
- 1945-07-16 to 1945-08-02
- How we use it
- Year-level placement is limited to the dated source entry.
The date reference is this project’s reading of the source’s date. It may give an era name, a reign or a calendar in a normalised form rather than in the source’s own words; the dating notes say what the source prints.
Dating notes from the research record
Read trippotsdam.txt lines 1–2 and travel-truman-harry-s.xml lines 1–65, including trip 2734 at physical lines 17–26. Its start-date 1945-07-16 and end-date 1945-08-02 both fall in civil AD 1945; no calendar conversion is required. Original quotation begins at line 1, character 71.
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Sources and quoted text
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Travels of the President
Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
Quoted text (English)
Potsdam Conference with British Prime Ministers Churchill and Attlee and Soviet Premier Stalin.Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Credit the Office of the Historian and the fixed source version.
Exact source version
6a3b9e018f4963c8872b06fd0adff8213c1d4720744cef7c3b25018bc60f1aceChecks and changes
Source checked 2026-11-07. An independent AI evidence review supports this bounded, attributed wording. That review does not guarantee historical truth. How records are checked
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Revision s1901_potsdam_1945_0
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