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337
Paulus, Helmut
xvii
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17
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92–3
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103
,
157
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158
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171
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193
,
216
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217
,
218–20
,
226
,
305–8
,
314
,
316–19
,
320–21
,
413
,
497
,
519
,
552
Paulus, Irmgard
160
,
219
,
305
,
318
,
319
,
497
,
519
,
552
Paulus, Rudolf
220
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552
Pavlenko, Pavel Vasilievich
369
Pearl Harbor, bombing of (1941)
268–9
Peenemünde, bombing of (1943)
374
People’s Welfare
see
National Socialist People’s Welfare
Pervitin (methamphetamine)
44
,
98
Pestalozzi Gymnasium for Girls
398
Pétain, Marshal Philippe
102
,
276
,
279
Petersdorf (1945)
518
,
525
,
539
Petri, Erna
291–2
Pettenberg, Heinz
349
Pfannenstiel, Dr Wilhelm
252
,
254
Pfeil, Waltraud
63
Pflugbeil, General Johann
172
Pfofe, Ilse
117
Pforzheim
93
,
160
,
219–20
,
282
,
319
; bombing (1945)
497–8
; Americans arrive
519
Piasnica/Neustadt: massacre (1939)
41
Picasso, Pablo
312
Pieck, Wilhelm
564–5
,
566
Pillau (1945)
491
,
492
Pindar
413
Pirna: Sonnenstein asylum
83
Piskowitz (1945)
506
,
525–6
Pius XII, Pope
144
,
560
Plauen: Communists
60
Pleiger, Paul
297
Pochep (1941)
176
,
177–8
Poe, Edgar Allan
465
Pohlisch, Kurt
75
,
83
poison gas, fears of
92–3
Poitiers: 1940
133–4
,
135
; Baptistery frescoes
101
Poland/Poles: and Hitler’s demands
24–5
; invasion
16
,
26–8
,
30
,
31
,
33
,
34–8
,
45
; ethnic Germans
37
,
39
,
40
,
41
,
44
,
45–6
,
130
,
136–7
,
138
; Evangelical Consistory
47
; and German propaganda
44–5
; German reprisals and massacres
38
,
40–43
,
75
,
78
,
87
; prisoners of war
57
,
139
,
141
; relationships with Germans
129–30
; classification as ‘Germans’
138–9
; schools/education
139
; public executions in Germany
141–4
; desertion from Wehrmacht
215
; Jews forbidden to own furs
225
; deportation and murder of Jews
241
,
244
,
252
,
257
,
258
,
281
; forced recruitment of labour
273
; death of civilian workers in Germany
7
,
297–8
; German ‘anti-partisan’ actions and reprisals
275
; killing of Jews (1946)
549
; postwar
548–9
;
see also
Katyn
;
Warsaw
Polish Army
35–6
,
37
,
485–6
Pollex, Colonel Kurt
506
Pomerania: mobile gas vans
252
; arrival of evacuees (1943)
399
,
400
; evacuees from (1945)
500
; Soviet offensive
523
Popitz, Johannes
256
Posen
130
; Himmler’s address (1943)
380
; captured (1945)
523
postal service
19
; parcels
130–31
potato shortages
283–4
,
305
Potsdam Agreement (1945)
550
Prague: German occupation (1939)
25
,
26
; demonstration (1939)
60
; radio
80
; lack of customs border
131
; deportation of Jews (1942)
235
,
240
; German troops continue fighting (1945)
541
Preysing, Konrad Count von, Bishop of Berlin
144
,
146
,
248
,
249
,
253
,
560
Prince of Wales,
HMS
237
Prioux, General René
94
Probst, Fritz
xvii
,
64–5
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69
,
100
,
102
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104
,
181
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313
,
314–16
,
323
,
324
,
327–8
,
337–8
,
341
,
552
Probst, Gundula
315
Probst, Hildegard
xvii
,
65
,
337–8
,
340–41
,
552
; Fritz Probst to
69
,
102
,
104
,
315–16
,
323
,
324
,
327–8
Probst, Karl-Heinz
315
,
341
,
552
; Fritz Probst to
64–5
,
315
Probst, Manfred
315
prostitutes/prostitution
126–7
,
285–6
Protestant Church Chancellery
261
Protestant Inner Mission, Berlin
552
Protestants: and outbreak of war
32
; and Poland
26
,
40
,
47
; and Nazi regime
11–12
,
13–14
,
16
,
77
; a single conscientious objector
73
; and ‘euthanasia’ programme
85–6
,
147
; and Jews
261
; church attendance
385
,
386
; postwar
563
;
see also
Confessing Church
;
Lutherans
Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The
365
Prut, River
157
psychiatric patients
15
,
40
,
41
;
see also
‘euthanasia’ programme
psychiatry, military
74–5
,
553–4
punishments
see
crime and punishments
; executions
Purper, Liselotte
xvii
,
30
,
33
,
123
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135–8
,
225–6
,
325
,
387–8
,
390–91
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392
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422
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423
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424
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464
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465
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468–9
,
492
,
493–4
,
569
; Kurt Orgel to
388–9
,
422
,
465
,
480
,
493
Quade, Air Force General Erich
118
Quakers
73
,
262
R., Maria
176
,
177
,
199
; Robert R. to
177–8
,
198
R., Rainer
177
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178
,
198
R., Robert
176–9
,
181
,
195
,
198–9
,
321
‘racial purity’
292–3
radio: German
65–7
,
80
,
91
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98
,
100
,
117–18
,
216
,
422
; listening to foreign (enemy) broadcasts
79–81
,
119
,
247
,
251
,
338
; Hitler’s broadcasts (1942)
224
,
228
; Jews banned from possessing
236
; Gustav Siegfried Eins (British fake station)
300
;
see also
BBC
;
Request Concert for the Wehrmacht
Radusch, Hilde
535–6
Radzievsky, General Alexei
434
Raeder, Admiral Erich
14
,
301
,
302
RAF
see
Royal Air Force
railways, German
59
,
270
,
286
,
298
,
405
rape: by German troops
129
,
172
; by Kaminski Brigade
438
; by Red Army
1
,
2
,
471
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488
,
535–7
Ratibor (1945)
523
rationing
54–5
,
56
,
57
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60
,
161
,
271
,
281
,
282–3
,
284–5
,
299–31
,
300–1
,
305
,
407
; and evacuees
403
,
404
,
405
,
406
; in Berlin postwar
543
Ratzinger, Joseph (
later
Pope Benedict XVI)
345
Ravensbrück concentration camp
150
,
277
Rawa Ruska (1943)
254
Rebbien, Martha
285
Red Air Force
157
,
187

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