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In case you need a light refresher (National World War II Museum): www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles...

aug 31, 2025, 4:55 pm • 1 0

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Specifically, 08.31 is the anniversary of Operation Gliewitz (Gliwice in present-day Poland). It's the site of the tallest wooden radio tower in Europe. Today this would be called a "false flag" operation.

The military attack against Poland was masterminded by Hitler with the details worked out by General Franz Halder, the chief of the general staff, and Walter von Brauchitsch, commander in chief of the campaign. Hitler was determined to make it look as if the Poles had provoked the hostilities and the SS obliged by staging numerous false-flag operations and “Polish provocations” against Germans. According to the testimony of Sturmbannführer Alfred Naujocks at Nuremberg, Reinhard Heydrich and Heinrich “Gestapo” Müller ordered Operation Himmler to make the Poles appear to be the aggressors and to justify the coming war. The most infamous of these was the staged attack at a radio station in Gleiwitz on the German-Polish border on the night of August 31, 1939. Local Silesian German farmer Franciszek Honiok, who was known to be sympathetic to Poland, was arrested by the Gestapo, drugged, and shot. The Germans pretended that Poles had stormed the station and taken over; Honiok’s body was left as “evidence.” It was a lie from beginning to end, but Joseph Goebbels’s propaganda machine was soon churning out stories about the heinous attack. By the morning of September 1, 1939, Hitler was already using the Gleiwitz incident to justify his invasion of Poland. The attack at Westerplatte followed shortly after, sealing Poland’s fate.

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