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 • Jan. 24, 2025
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 • Feb. 18, 2022
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 • Jan. 10, 2022
At Gleiwitz was a synthetic fuel plant that employed 38,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
Our eyes searched the horizon for the barbed wire of Gleiwitz.
From "Night" by Elie Wiesel
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