BONUS: The Gleiwitz Incident (and other false flag attacks)

On the night of the 31st of August 1939, as Europe stood on the
brink of war, Nazi Germany staged a series of false-flag attacks
along the German-Polish border, carefully choreographed to
provide a pretext for their invasion of Poland.


The most notorious of these operations unfolded at the radio
station in Gleiwitz, where German operatives disguised as Polish
insurgents stormed the transmitter and broadcast a fabricated
call for rebellion in Polish.


But Gleiwitz was no isolated incident, because that same night,
similar staged assaults were carried out near the small towns of
Hochlinden and Pitschen, creating the illusion of a major Polish
incursion.

Dramatic in intent yet clumsy in execution, these false-flag
attacks helped usher Europe into war…


Map: Here is a map
giving an overview of the locations featured in this episode.


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Sources used:

Dennis Whitehead, "The Gleiwitz Incident", Issue 142, "After The
Battle" magazine, Battle of Britain International Ltd, 2009.


Tracesofwar - “Gleiwitz Incident”.