In the late evening of Thursday, August 31, 1939, German covert activists who pretend to be the Gliwice radio station within the German/Poland Silesia Polish terrorists seized.
Transmitter music program came to an abrupt halt, followed by the hectic vote, the announcement that marched Polish formations in direction of the city; Germany was by Poland is conquered!
Then, like a bad imitation of the previous year infamous war of the worlds broadcast transmission went dead for a moment of dramatic silence.
Word of Gliwice reached rest of world
Soon, called brought the ether, and rustled to life again and this time Polish votes (clever little devil, German...) for all Poland relating to broadcast attack weapons and Germany.
The story quickly picked up radio stations in greater Europe. The BBC broadcast this statement:
There were reports of an attack on a radio station in Gleiwitz that is only on the Polish border in Silesia. The German news agency reported that the attack on 8 P.m. tonight came as the Poland penetrated into the Studio and began broadcasting a statement in Polish. Within fifteen minutes, reports says, the Poland were overwhelmed by German police opened fire on you. More the Poland were reported killed, but the figures are not yet known.
And so he penetrate an excuse to Poland, Hitler into action the next day invented: September 1, 1939. The day began with the second world war.
Alfred Naujocks: Man, the second world war started
Alfred Helmut Naujocks was an intellectual go to hard man. It was to get Naujocks that set the Gleiwitz station orders from Heinrich Müller, Chief of the Gestapo to staged terrorist attacks together.
What the German with the codename "were doses," dissenters and criminals were held in detention camps alive until the Gestapo needed a warm dead body Naujock's had available. The Gleiwitz attack Einzelerscheinungen, Naujocks brought along a canned good: Franciszek Honiok.
Honiok, a well-known Polish sympathizer was a German from the Silesian region. Before arriving at the train station, the Gestapo gave him a lethal injection. Then, you as a Polish terrorist dressed him and brought him to the front of the radio station. Naujocks later testified that the man was unconscious, but still not dead when he was shot round full pistol. If the police and the press of Honiok's body found, assumed he already had one of the fictional Polish terrorists attacked the station.
Operation Himmler
All in all there were 21 fake terror actions along the border of that very night, many of you with "Canned" of the German prisons, it would much of facilities in the morning-evidence the Polish attacker self-defense was shot. The actions were called all part of a larger plan operation Himmler.
The next day after a long night with fake terror, Hitler a speech to the German army kept filled completely with synthetic anger:
The Polish State rejected the peaceful settlement of relations that I wanted, and appealed to poor. Persecuted Germans driven from their homes and bloody terror. A series of violations of the border, unbearable, a great power, prove that Poland is no longer prepared to respect the Empire's border.
To put an end to this madness, I have no choice as to meet the force with force from now on. The Bundeswehr is hard fight the fight for the honor and the important rights of reborn Germany with determination. I expect that every soldier, bearing in mind the great traditions of the eternal German soldiery, ever aware will remain, he is a representative of the Nazi NAZI Germany. Long live our people and our empire!
So, the citizen Federal Germany, be it believed all Poland's fault. With the benefit of indulgence, we should learn how war to defend the homeland was started under the premise. And we should learn, seems like a psychopath becoming a Savior, the duplicates he claims to protect. And we should pay attention to the often repeated lessons of history...
Where are they now?
It could have been never uncovered the true story behind the Gleiwitz attack for the Nuremberg trials in 1945. It was there that the operation of the leader, Alfred Naujocks, beans in a written affidavit spilled.
After that fateful night, Naujocks had several years of adventure with the Nazis. He deserted Germany and handed over to allied forces in 1944. He was held as a war criminal, until the war was over. According to the testimony at Nuremberg, he was a businessman in Hamburg and have helped some Nazis fleeing to South America on the page. He died in 1966.
As for the Gliwice radio station there are still a 38-story tower, nicknamed of the Bavarian Eiffel Tower, which is the tallest wooden tower in the world. 2004 The station was on radio history and Visual Arts Museum.
Copyright?2007 Joe Crubaugh
Joe Crubaugh is a freelance writer whose Psyche often is absorbed a steaming cup white chocolate mocha with current events, politics, art, culture, society and the creamy bitterness. He is author of numerous personal e-Mails and most days he blogs on Hard Boiled Dreams of the World. If he did not write, Joe spends days, masquerading as a software consultant in an undisclosed southeastern US State.
