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Wandlitzerin

October 18, 2018

The house was named "Truman Villa" because US President Harry S. Truman stayed here during the Potsdam Conference.

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Claudia Hinkelhuber

July 17, 2020

The villa was built in 1891 on the 10,000 square meter site for the publisher Müller-Grote. At that time it was called "Haus Erlenkamp". Owner of the Grotesch publishing house and publisher of Theodor Fontane's works. The villa served as his summer residence and was an early meeting point for important personalities. The family, like many others, had to leave their villa in the summer of 1945, since the entire area was cleared for the Soviet occupation. From July 15, 1945, Truman lived in the villa for 17 days with Secretary of State James F. Byrnes and Defense Adviser William D. Leahy. From the Truman Villa, President Truman issued the order to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Source: Wikipedia

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Claudia Hinkelhuber

July 17, 2020

In the years that followed, the building had various uses: in the 1950s, the "Institute for Law" of the Academy for State and Law, from 1961 it was a polytechnic high school for 13 years, from 1974 it was the furniture warehouse of the city of Potsdam.

After the turn the house was transferred back. Since 1998 the building has belonged to the Friedrich Naumann Foundation of the FDP. Source: Jana Galinowski: Country Houses & Villas

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Location: Brandenburg, Germany

Truman Villa (Haus Erlenkamp)

1. Park Bridge Babelsberg – Griebnitz Canal loop from Babelsberg Süd

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