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Pots⋅dam

[pots-dam; for 1 also Ger. pawts-dahm]
–noun
1. a city in and the capital of Brandenburg, in NE Germany, SW of Berlin: formerly the residence of German emperors; wartime conference July–August 1945 of Truman, Stalin, Churchill, and later, Attlee. 142,860.
2. a town in N New York. 10,635.
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Pots·dam   (pŏts'dām')   
A city of northeast Germany on the Havel River near Berlin. The city was the site of the Potsdam Conference (July-August 1945), at which American, British, and Soviet leaders drew up preliminary plans for the postwar administration of Germany and assigned various captured territories to Poland. Population: 149,000.
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