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,