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Paderborn 172

Palestine 189, 530; Britain refuses entry for Jewish refugees 146; as a Jewish state 134, 321, 350

Pan-German League/pan-Germanism 65, 67

Panzer Corps ‘Grodeutschland’ 768–9

Panzer Group 4 359

Panzer Group West 641

Papen, Franz von 68, 226, 428, 732–3; Ambassador to Austria 66; and the Anschlue 76, 82, 83; Austrian Nazi plans to murder 69; on H 71–2; meets Schuschnigg 70; plans to topple Schuschnigg 45, 67, 69

‘paper war’ 566

Paris: H visits 299–300; H’s orders 722; liberated 722; lingering remnants of the German coup (1944) 683; Stulpnagel backs the insurrectionists (1944) 678

Party of National Concentration (Nationale Sammlungspartei) 819

Pas de Calais 641

Pasewalk military hospital 754

Patton, General George S. 720, 744, 788

Paul, Prince, of Yugoslavia 360

Paulus, Field-Marshal Friedrich 497, 530, 533, 537, 543, 544, 545, 548–51

Pavelic, Ante 581

pax americana xviii

Payne Best, Captain S. 271

Pearl Harbor (1941) 364, 442, 444, 445, 446, 448, 486–7, 490

Peenemunde 622

Peloponnese 361

Pension Moritz (later the Platterhof), Obersalzberg 636

People’s Court (Volksgerichtshof) 507, 508, 552, 688–9, 721, 733; show trials 691–2

Perkowski, Tadeusz 202

Persian Gulf 276, 514

Petacci, Clara 826

Petain, Marshal 297, 299, 328–32, 525, 542

Peter II, King of Yugoslavia 360

Petersberg Hotel, Bad Godesberg 113, 114

Pfaueninsel (Peacock Island), Havel 7

Pfeffer von Salomon, Franz 436

Philip of Hesse, Prince 76, 78, 600

Phipps, Sir Eric 25, 46

‘Phoney War’ (autumn and winter 1939–40) 274–5

physically handicapped 258–9

Picasso, Pablo, Guernica 24–5

Pillau 762

Pilsudski, Marshal 237

Pintsch, Karl-Heinz 371, 372

Pirow, Oswald 151

Pissia river 238

Platterhof hotel, Obersalzberg 636

Plenipotentiary for Reich Administration 709

Plenipotentiary for the Total War Effort (Reichsbevollmachtigter fur den totalen Kriegseinsatz) 708–12, 713

Ploesti oilfields 332, 343, 635

Plon 820, 832

Plotzensee Prison, Berlin 693

Poland: British Guarantee to Poland 155, 175, 178, 179, 190, 212, 216, 218, 237; the collapsing front in 762; Danzig Question 158, 177; death camps closed 766–7; deportation of Jews into the foreign-speaking Gau 244; Eastern Wall 244; the Einsatzgruppen 241, 243, 244, 246; ‘ethnic cleansing’ 240–1, 248, 355; as an experimental training-ground 234–5, 355; extermination of Europe’s Jews 430; fatalities 236; and the ‘final solution of the Jewish Question’ 483; first shots fired in (1 September 1939) 221–2; General Government 239, 244, 245–6, 250, 252, 279, 319, 320, 322, 323, 351, 352, 375, 462, 471, 475, 480, 488, 491, 492, 493, 494, 520, 589; the German minority 241–2; German position strengthened 165; German propaganda 200, 201; Government-in-Exile (London) 725; H and Haider want to smash Poland at breakneck speed 180; H hopes to win allies in 43; H on 191–2; H rescinds invasion order (August 1939) 214–15, 229–30; H sanctions mass murder 248; H views devastation in Warsaw 236; Haider’s speech (1939) 179–80; H’s approach changes markedly 166–7; intelligentsia 245; Jewish population 234; and the ‘Jewish Question’ 134, 317; ‘the key to the situation’ 174; military alliance with Britain 215; mobilization (March 1939) 177, 190, 229; and Moravska-Ostrava 165, 190; murder of Polish officers at Katyn (1940) 583; and the national-conservative resistance 263; a new division of 782; ‘New Order’ 243, 251, 252; Non-Aggression Pact with Germany 189, 190, 191; not expected to fight (1939) 205; the Polish front 276; a potentially hostile neighbour xlv; proposed German-Russian agreement partitioning Poland 196; revisionism 46, 95; and Ruthenia 165; scope for the Nazi Party 315; Security Police 251, 252; seeks a strong central European cordon of states 157; ‘September Murders’ (1939) 242; Soviet Union invades from the east 236; Stauffenberg’s attitude 668; Ukrainian minority 165– 6; Volkstumskampf (‘ethnic struggle’) 243

Polavy bridgehead 756

police force: ideologically driven xliii; and the Jewish Question xliv

Polish air-force 236

Polish army 179, 236, 240

‘Polish Committee for National Liberation’ 725

Polish Corridor 158, 165, 166, 177, 178, 181, 190, 200, 216, 218, 219, 220, 221, 225, 238, 664

Polish crisis (summer 1939) 123, 129

Polish Question 165, 279, 321

Polish underground army 724–5

Poltava 444, 524, 527, 660

Pomerania (Hinterpommern) 235, 758, 759, 762, 779, 787

Pomeen, near Leipzig 258, 259

Ponza 594

Popitz, Johannes 659, 664, 690

Posen 758, 759; Himmler speaks of vengeance against plotters 691; Himmler’s antisemitic speech to SS leaders (4 October 1943) 487, 559, 584, 604–5

Potsdam 815, 820, 826

Prague 85, 107, 112, 164, 166, 168–73, 286, 318, 481, 482, 518, 526, 683, 801

Presidential Chancellery 709, 800

Pretzsch 382, 463

Price, Ward 80

Prinz Eugen (heavy cruiser) 504

Pripet Marsh 346, 350, 368, 463, 488

Probst, Christoph 552 propaganda: and the Anschlue 76, 79; and antisemitism xliii, 141–2, 583; before ‘Barbarossa’ 386; British 432, 436; caricature of Jews 249; and Czechoslovakia 90, 91, 96–7, 99, 166, 169; displays 184; and the economic crisis 18; and the elections of 1938 82; the ‘euthanasia action’ 429; and formation of the Axis 26; and H’s memorandum (1936) 22; and national pride xxxix; and the Olympic Games 5, 8; and Pearl Harbor 445; and the plight of the 6th Army 548; and Poland 200, 201, 209, 214, 241, 242

Protestant Church xxxix, 39