Nemesis at Potsdam

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nemesis at Potsdam is the first book by the American lawyer and historian Alfred-Maurice de Zayas. It was originally published in 1977 by Routledge & Kegan Paul in London and Boston with a preface by US Ambassador Robert Murphy, a participant at the Potsdam Conference and former political advisor of General Dwight D. Eisenhower during World War II and of General Lucius Clay during the American military government in Germany. The book was dedicated to Victor Gollancz, whose seminal book Our Threatened Values had inspired the author. The name Nemesis is drawn from Greek mythology, Nemesis being the Greek goddess of revenge. The implication is that at the Potsdam Conference (17 July to 2 August 1945) the victorious Allies of World War II took revenge on the Germans, entailing significant territorial losses in Eastern Europe and the forced transfer of some 15 million Germans from their homelands in East Prussia, Pomerania, Silesia, East Brandenburg, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Yugoslavia.