Panzers (cont.)
Panzer Division, 56; XXIV Panzer
Corps, 69, 70, 82, 135, 138, 145,
367; 24th Panzer Division, 204,
206, 379; 25th Panzer Division,
72, 75, 77; XXIX Panzer Corps,
183; XXXVI Panzer Corps, 103;
XL Panzer Corps, 367; LXVII
Panzer Corps, 70; See also
Grossdeutschland Panzer Corps;
specific divisions under SS
Patton, General George S., 57
Paul, W., 80, 157, 192, 198, 224, 287
Paulus, General Friedrich von, 9
Pearl Harbor, 8
Persian Gulf War, 301, 302
Peyse, 218, 219, 289
Phoney War, 7
Pichler, Dr., 194
Piedmont-Sardinia, 6
Pillau, 160, 163, 164, 166, 208, 218,
219, 276, 289, 291, 384
Plato, A. D., 165, 209, 218, 219, 364,
372, 379, 384
Plessin, 280
Poensgen, Robert, 228, 229
Poersel, First Lieutenant, 259
Poland, 6, 315; civilians massacred
in, 273, 277; concentration camps
in, 274; effects of thaw in, 117;
German defence of, 26, 60, 152,
153, 293, 362, 368, 371, 376;
German invasion of, 7, 286;
German retreat across, 222; Jews
of, 272; liberation of, 114-16, 123;
loss of German territory to, 299-
300, 302, 307; 1920 Russian war
with, 123; occupation of, 8, 44;
political future of, 16-17; Prussia
and, 284-86; Soviet offensive in,
13, 15, 24, 29-37, 59-106, 142-47,
167, 304, 323, 325, 328, 352; West
Prussia ruled by, 220
Polish Army, First, 233, 235
Polish Home Army, 11, 103
Pomerania, 122, 151, 170, 181, 220,
221, 271, 274, 278, 280, 287-90,
308, 330; defence of, 108, 134,
364, 368, 369, 371, 382, 383; fall of
Kolberg, 232-35; Himmler in, 178;
history of, 287; Polish annexation
of, 300; refugees in, 289, 290; see
also East Pomerania operation
Posen, 27, 98-102, 252, 353, 354; fall
of, 121, 249-51, 307, 381
Potsdam conference, 300, 302
Prague, 282-83; liberation of, 295;
University of, 271
Preussich-Holland, 171, 173
Prinz Eugen (heavy cruiser), 192,
223, 382
Prussia, 6, 42, 100, 111, 114, 151,
152, 271, 283-86, 293; civilians
massacred in, 275-76, 278-80;
defence of, 26, 79, 152, 362, 375,
378-79, 383; history of, 283-84,
286; Polish annexation of segment
of, 300; refugees in, 289; in Seven
Years War, 291-92; Soviet
annexation of segment of, 299;
Soviet offensive in, 14, 153-85,
189, 192, 203-19, 222, 303, 323,
324, 326, 351, 354
Pulawy bridgehead, 30, 31, 72, 73,
75, 82
Pultusk bridgehead, 167
Pyaski, 105
Pyritz, 106
Quednau, Fort, 161
Radom-Lodz Operation, 319
Radzievskii, A. I., 338, 358
Ramin, Major von, 384
Ratibor, 146
Raus, Colonel-General Erhard, 188,
237, 308, 309, 371
Recknagel, General Hermann, 70,
83,
Red Army, 29, 123, 274, 313, 346,
347, 355; Direct Support Group
(Gruppa NPP), 314; Group for
Further Operations (Gruppa DD),
315; Samland Front, 203, 210; 1st
Baltic Front, 203; 1st Belorussian
Front, 11, 21, 27, 29-31, 33, 52,
72-78, 80, 98, 107, 108, 121, 122,
127, 179, 181, 185-88, 194, 232,