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 …

May 26, 2024 · This "attack," known as the Gleiwitz incident, was the most prominent of several false flag operations along the Polish-German border staged by the Nazis as a pretext for …

Dec 29, 2024 · Nazi soldiers launched a simulated attack on the German-run Gleiwitz radio station on the evening of August 31, 1939. The action, which is widely referred to as the …

Aug 31, 2018 · In early August, Schutzstaffel (SS) leader Reinhard Heydrich had gathered together a select number of SS officers at a hotel in Gleiwitz. He informed them of a plan to …

Jan 25, 2025 · The Gleiwitz incident was an attack organised by the Nazis that had to appear as a Polish act of aggression. After the armistice of November 11, 1918, and the signing of the …

Aug 31, 2025 · The Gleiwitz incident of August 31, 1939, was a small but pivotal moment in world history. By staging a false Polish attack, the Nazi regime created a pretext for the invasion of …

A sub-camp founded in March 1944 at the rolling stock repair yard in Gliwice (German: Gleiwitz). The first several score prisoners transferred from Auschwitz were sent to work assembling …

The Gleiwitz incident established a dangerous precedent for justifying aggression through manufactured crises. This tactic would reappear throughout the war, from the staged incidents …

The witness further testified that no sections of Amts III and VI were used for the execution of that border incident in Gleiwitz and that the men who with him attacked the Gleiwitz station did not …

Aug 31, 2025 · On this day 86 years ago, an elite squad of German soldiers disguised as Polish soldiers attacked a radio station on the outskirts of what was then the German city of Gleiwitz; …