An English-style country palace, Schloss Cecilienhof was completed in 1917 for Crown Prince Wilhelm and his wife, Cecilie, as the last residence built by the Hohenzollern clan. However, it's mostly famous for hosting the 1945 Potsdam Conference where Stalin, Truman and Churchill (and later his successor Clement Attlee) hammered out Germany’s postwar fate and incidentally laid the foundation for the Cold War.
Schloss Cecilienhof
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