Gleiwitz
Americannoun
noun
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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.
From BBC
On August 31, 1939, the SS dressed in Polish uniforms and launched a fake attack on a German radio station in Gleiwitz, in Upper Silesia, in southwest Poland.
From Literature
The night before Germany invaded Poland, seven German SS soldiers pretending to be Polish stormed the Gleiwitz radio tower on the German side of the border with Poland.
From BBC
Adolf Hitler made a speech the next day citing the Gleiwitz attack and other similarly orchestrated incidents to justify the invasion of Poland.
From BBC
The previous evening, SS soldiers dressed as Poles seized a radio transmitter and called for the Poles to take up arms against the Germans at the German border town of Gleiwitz.
From Washington Post
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