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The Gleiwitz incident (German: Überfall auf den Sender Gleiwitz; Polish: Prowokacja gliwicka) was a false flag attack on the radio station Sender Gleiwitz in Gleiwitz (then Germany and now Gliwice, Poland) staged by Nazi Germany on the night of 31 August 1939.
The Gleiwitz incident was a false-flag attack on a radio station in Gleiwitz on 31 August 1939, staged by the German secret police, which served as a pretext, devised by Reinhard Heydrich under orders from Hitler, for Nazi Germany to invade Poland, and which marked the start of the Second World War.
The German Upper Silesian Franz Bernheim succeeded in convincing the League of Nations to force Nazi Germany to abide by the Accord, by filing the Bernheim petition. [12] Accordingly, in September 1933 the Reich's Nazi government suspended in German Upper Silesia all anti-Semitic discrimination laws already imposed and excepted the province ...
Nazi Germany staged a false flag attack on the tower in 1939, which was used as a pretext for invading Poland, beginning World War II. Gliwice Radio Tower Gliwice Radio Tower ( Polish : Wieża radiostacji w Gliwicach ) is a miniature painting on glass by Paweł Brodzisz, created in 2024.
The Province of Silesia (German: Provinz Schlesien; Polish: Prowincja Śląska; Silesian: Prowincyjŏ Ślōnskŏ) was a province of Prussia from 1815 to 1919. The Silesia region was part of the Prussian realm since 1742 and established as an official province in 1815, then became part of the German Empire in 1871.
It was the site of the Gleiwitz incident - a false flag incident staged by Nazi Germany in 1939 to justify the invasion of Poland, one of the triggers of World War Two. And in 1945, towards the ...
Kreis Tost-Gleiwitz; Population. Ethno-linguistic structure. Number of Polish and German speakers in Regierungsbezirk Oppeln Year Polish German Other (including ...
The German radio station Sender Gleiwitz , the Gleiwitz incident being arguably the most notable of the Operation Himmler operations [9] The German customs station at Hochlinden (now part of Rybnik-Stodoły) [8] [9] The forest service station in Pitschen, now Byczyna [8]