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 Gliwice, Poland) staged by Nazi Germany on the night of 31 August 1939.

On the evening of 31 August 1939, a seven-man SS team stormed the transmitter station disguised as Polish insurgents. They pushed past the German staff, seized a microphone, and announced in Polish: “Attention! This is Gliwice. The broadcasting station is in Polish hands.”

2024年12月29日 · 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 Gleiwitz Incident, was designed to give the impression that Poland was attacking Nazi Germany.

2024年5月26日 · 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 Germany‘s invasion of Poland the following day – the act of aggression that triggered World War II.

The Gleiwitz incident was a planned German attack against the radio station "Sender Gleiwitz" in the German town of Gliwice on the night of August 31, 1939. This attack along with other Nazi activities was used to make people think that Poland attacked Germany and that Poland, not Germany started World War II .

2025年1月25日 · 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 Treaty of Versailles a year later, there was a lot of frustration in Germany about the compulsory ceding of territories.

On Aug. 31, 1939 — 75 years ago this week — Nazi agents staged a fake attack on the German radio transmission tower at Gleiwitz, on the German-Polish border. Adolf Hitler used this “attack” as a pretext for the invasion of Poland the next day.

On the evening of August 31, 1939, a small group of SS operatives dressed in Polish uniforms attacked the Gleiwitz radio station. The plan involved storming the station, seizing control of the broadcast, and airing a brief anti-German message in Polish.

On 31 August 1939, the plan was executed by German agents dressed as Polish Soldiers, led by Alfred Naujocks, a German SS-Sturmbannführer (Major). They pretended to attack border buildings, fired indiscriminate shots, carried out acts of vandalism – generally cause a lot of fuss and noise without actually causing much actual damage.

There have been reports of an attack on a radio station in Gleiwitz, which is just across the Polish border in Silesia. The German News Agency reports that the attack came at about 8.00pm this evening when the Poles forced their way into the studio and …