In July, 1945. The winning allies of Europe met at Potsdam, newly internned president Harry S. Truman replaced Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had died in April, 1945, and while the conference was taking place, the British General Election resulted in a landslide victory for the Labour Party which meant that Clement Attlee replaced Winston Churchill as Britain’s main negotiator.
Stalin, Churchill, and Truman and later Attlee gathered to decide how to administer punishment to the defeated Nazi Germany and its people, which had agreed to unconditional surrender nine weeks earlier, on 8 May (V-E Day). The goals of the conference also included the establishment of post-war order, peace treaties issues, and countering the effects of war. The Potsdam map was used by the Allies as a guide to divide up Germany for their future interests.
Illustrated here is our copy of the Potsdam Map, the original is now displayed in the Churchill War Rooms in Whitehall. We worked with the Machine Shop in order to make this facsimile for display in a museum in Germany. Clearly the acetate had shrunk by the time the allies used it as reference because they then had to draw their proposed divisions across not only the acetate but also on the map itself where the shrinking acetate had exposed the map.
It is interesting to note that the outside case has its weight recorded of 18lbs clearly a necessity for the flight to Potsdam. Also the case is adapted, the internal rexine material has been cut away to enable the 1944 National Geographic map to be displayed, clearly a case of having to make do with limited resources.
The chain which encircles one of the handles, is cold riveted to itself, is padlock secured to the end of it is for securing the chain to another chain, not for keeping the folio shut but possibly for securing to the folio to the person assigned to carry it.
For the recreation of the rexine cover we used the expertise of Roy Bacon and his team at Marsupial Bags located at Brentford Studios, West London.
The Potsdam Map
In July, 1945. The winning allies of Europe met at Potsdam, newly internned president Harry S. Truman replaced Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had died in April, 1945, and while the conference was taking place, the British General Election resulted in a landslide victory for the Labour Party which meant that Clement Attlee replaced Winston Churchill as Britain’s main negotiator.
Stalin, Churchill, and Truman and later Attlee gathered to decide how to administer punishment to the defeated Nazi Germany and its people, which had agreed to unconditional surrender nine weeks earlier, on 8 May (V-E Day). The goals of the conference also included the establishment of post-war order, peace treaties issues, and countering the effects of war. The Potsdam map was used by the Allies as a guide to divide up Germany for their future interests.
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Illustrated here is our copy of the Potsdam Map, the original is now displayed in the Churchill War Rooms in Whitehall. We worked with the Machine Shop in order to make this facsimile for display in a museum in Germany. Clearly the acetate had shrunk by the time the allies used it as reference because they then had to draw their proposed divisions across not only the acetate but also on the map itself where the shrinking acetate had exposed the map.
It is interesting to note that the outside case has its weight recorded of 18lbs clearly a necessity for the flight to Potsdam. Also the case is adapted, the internal rexine material has been cut away to enable the 1944 National Geographic map to be displayed, clearly a case of having to make do with limited resources.
The chain which encircles one of the handles, is cold riveted to itself, is padlock secured to the end of it is for securing the chain to another chain, not for keeping the folio shut but possibly for securing to the folio to the person assigned to carry it.
For the recreation of the rexine cover we used the expertise of Roy Bacon and his team at Marsupial Bags located at Brentford Studios, West London.
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