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Potsdam
[ pots-dam; German pawts-dahm ]
noun
- 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.
- a town in N New York.
Potsdam
/ ˈpɔtsdam; ˈpɒtsdæm /
noun
- a city in Germany, the capital of Brandenburg on the Havel River: residence of Prussian kings and German emperors and scene of the Potsdam Conference of 1945, at which the main Allied powers agreed on a plan to occupy Germany at the end of the Second World War. Pop: 144 979 (2003 est)
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Potsdam and Schoenbrunn know more on the subject at this moment than the duke.
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We have always maintained that the German military route lay on a direct line to Potsdam.
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I have seen him taking five-o'clock tea with his wife, his sons and their wives at Sans Souci, in Potsdam.
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He fell back on his higher rank, and in my anger I struck him on the parade-ground at Potsdam while he was reviewing his regiment.
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Upon which Friedrich candidly drew bridle; hastened back, and, with a loss of four days, was at his Potsdam Affairs again.
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