Gleiwitz radio station

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broadcasting facility radio station

Gleiwitz radio station was a German broadcasting facility in the town of Gleiwitz (now Gliwice, Poland), historically known as the site of the staged 1939 Gleiwitz incident used by Nazi Germany as a pretext to invade Poland.

Aliases (1)

Gleiwitz ×1

Statements (43)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	broadcasting facility → radio station →
associatedWith	Adolf Hitler → Heinrich Himmler → Reinhard Heydrich →
broadcastArea	German-Polish border region → Upper Silesia →
category	False flag operations → History of Nazi Germany → History of Poland → Radio stations in Europe →
continent	Europe →
country	Germany →
currentCountry	Poland →
currentNameOfTown	Gliwice →
dateOfEvent	1939-08-31 →
era	World War II → interwar period →
event	staged attack by Nazi operatives disguised as Polish aggressors →
function	broadcasting radio programs →
historicalCountry	Nazi Germany → Weimar Republic →
historicalNameOfTown	Gleiwitz →
knownFor	Gleiwitz incident →
languageOfBroadcast	German →
locatedIn	Gleiwitz → Gliwice → Poland → Silesian Voivodeship NERFINISHED → Upper Silesia →
locatedInTimeZone	Central European Summer Time → Central European Time →
mediaType	radio →
notableEvent	false-flag attack staged by Nazi Germany in 1939 →
operationName	Operation Himmler →
operator	German broadcasting authorities →
originalCountry	Germany →
partOf	Operation Himmler →
perpetrator	Nazi Germany → SS →
significance	site of a staged attack used as a pretext for the German invasion of Poland in 1939 →
usedAsPretextFor	German invasion of Poland → outbreak of World War II in Europe →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Gleiwitz incident → Gleiwitz incident ("Gleiwitz") →	location