page_title: John Lowenthal
section_title: Government service
hierarchical_section_title: John Lowenthal / Career / Government service
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Potsdamer Konferenz, Stalin, Truman, Churchill Zentralbild Potsdamer (Berliner) Konferenz der führenden Staatsmänner der drei alliierten Mächte der UdSSR, Grossbritannien und der USA vom 17. Juli bis 2. August 1945 in Schloß Cecilienhof und Babelsberg. Ihr Ergebnis ist das Potsdamer Abkommen, das die völkerrechtlichen Grundfragen für den Aufbau eines friedlichen, demokratischen deutschen Staates und die Politik der Siegermächte gegenüber Deutschland festlegt. Unser Bild wurde während einer Konferenzpause in Potsdam gemacht und zeigt v.l.n.r.: Stalin, Truman und Churchill [Josef Stalin, Harry S. Truman, Winston Churchill] Abgebildete Personen: Churchill, Winston: Premierminister, Großbritannien (PND 118520776) Truman, Harry S.: Präsident, Demokratische Partei, USA (PND 118624210} Stalin, Josef W.: 1878-1953; Marschall, Vorsitzender des Ministerrates, Generalsekretär der KP, Sowjetunion (PND 118642499)
context_page_description: John Lowenthal was a 20th-century American lawyer, civil servant, law professor, and documentary filmmaker, who defended the name and reputation of family friend Alger Hiss almost all his life.
context_section_description: In the 1940s, Lowenthal served in the U.S. Navy.
  In the late 1940s (overlapping with the Hiss Case), during the Truman administration, he worked in the White House, where his father also worked (unofficially–"in the basement"), according to White House staff Stephen J. Spingarn.
caption: Harry S. Truman, for whom Lowenthal worked briefly, with Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill at Potsdam (July 1945)
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