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The Gleiwitz Incident: Manufactured Provocation and the Outbreak of World War II
On the night of August 31, 1939, a German radio station in the small town of Gleiwitz (now Gliwice, Poland) became the stage for one of the most infamous false-flag operations in modern history. Known as the Gleiwitz incident, this orchestrated event was part of a broader Nazi propaganda effort to fabricate a justification for Germany’s planned invasion of Poland. In the following days, Adolf Hitler declared that Poland had attacked Germany, using Gleiwitz and other staged border clashes as proof of Polish aggression.