Nazi Terminology - P

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• Pan-Germanism – The idea that all Germans should live in one country.
• Panzerkampfwagen (military) – "armoured fighting vehicle" = tank; not specific to Third Reich, but listed here for its centrality to Blitzkrieg.
• Panzerfaust "armour fist" – An inexpensive, disposable, recoilless anti-tank weapon of World War II. Forerunner that led to the development of the Soviet RPG (rocket-propelled grenade).
• Panzerschreck An anti-tank weapon of World War II, similar to the American bazooka.
• Partei-Statistik – 1935 Nazi Party three volume publication of membership data.
• Parteitage - (NSDAP) Party (rally) days.
• Planwirtschaft – a limited planned economy; Walther Funk promoted this idea within the Nazi party who thought genuine corporatism too stifling for business growth.
• Plutokratie - "Plutocracy", Nazi term for the western capitalist countries, especially the USA and the UK.
• Plötzensee – a place in Berlin, site of a notorious prison where numerous opponents of Hitler and the Nazi régime were put to death.
• Prinzenerlass - A 1940 decree by Hitler prohibiting members of Germanic royal families from working for the military.
• Putsch – German word meaning coup or revolt; has also entered the English language meaning the same.