porter simon bowen is here to help give us some more perspective on the potsdam conference simon the past some conference marked the end of one conflict and the beginning of another didn't it that's right aaron it showed what what a difference just a few months could make this was the 3rd major conference between the big 3 powers and it was the 1st after the war and thus the 1st without a common enemy and that's where things started to go wrong in terms of working together. the the result ready eastern europe practically in the hands of the soviet union stalin was under in control of much of the continent and there was very little the western powers to do about that. all they could really talk about was the future of germany and much of watch transpired there actually took place and could be seen as the foundation of the modern german state they had a list of several things all of which began with d.d. not sophistication democratisation decentralisation but there is another word division that hadn't been planned the soviets and the western powers simply couldn't work together and end