Gleiwitz incident

When

31 Aug 1939

Kind

Military operation

Deaths

1

Coordinates

50.31° N, 18.69° E

Description

1939 staged attack by Nazi forces

Staged attack by Nazi forces to invade Poland

The Gleiwitz incident, or Gliwice incident, was a false flag attack on the radio station Sender Gleiwitz in Gleiwitz staged by Nazi Germany on the night of 31 August 1939. Along with some two dozen similar incidents, the attack was manufactured by Germany as a casus belli to justify the invasion of Poland.

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• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Sechs oder sieben SS-Männer unter der Führung von Alfred Naujocks fingieren einen polnischen Überfall auf den Sender Gleiwitz (ob sie dabei polnische Uniformen…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “инсценированное нападение на немецкую радиостанцию в Глайвице, послужившее предлогом для нападения вермахта на Польшу, следствием чего стало начало Второй…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page