Gleiwitz incident
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The Gleiwitz incident was a staged 1939 false-flag attack by Nazi Germany on a German radio station, used as propaganda to justify the invasion of Poland and the start of World War II.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
false flag operation
→
historical event → propaganda event → staged attack → |
| alsoKnownAs |
Gleiwitz radio station attack
→
Gleiwitz incident →
surface form: "Gliwice incident"
|
| category |
Events preceding World War II
→
Nazi war crimes → Political deception → |
| country | Nazi Germany → |
| date | 1939-08-31 → |
| followedBy |
Invasion of Poland
→
surface form: "German invasion of Poland on 1939-09-01"
|
| hasLanguageOfBroadcast |
German
→
Polish → |
| historicalSignificance |
example of false flag operation in modern warfare
→
key propaganda element in Nazi justification for war → |
| location |
Germany
→
Gleiwitz radio station →
surface form: "Gleiwitz"
Gleiwitz radio station → Prussian Silesia →
surface form: "Upper Silesia"
|
| mediaTypeInvolved | radio broadcast → |
| method |
broadcast of anti-German statements in Polish
→
seizure of a German radio station → use of murdered prisoners as fake Polish attackers → |
| orderedBy |
HeinrichHimmler
→
surface form: "Heinrich Himmler"
|
| organizedBy | Alfred Naujocks → |
| partOf |
Nazi German operations against Poland
→
Operation Himmler → |
| perpetrator |
Gestapo
→
SS → |
| plannedBy |
ReinhardHeydrich
→
surface form: "Reinhard Heydrich"
|
| pretextFor | Hitler’s Reichstag speech of 1 September 1939 → |
| purpose |
to fabricate Polish aggression against Germany
→
to justify German military action against Poland → |
| relatedTo |
Invasion of Poland
→
Nazi propaganda → Operation Himmler → World War II → |
| result |
German propaganda claim of Polish attack
→
international misrepresentation of Polish responsibility → |
| timePeriod |
eve of World War II
→
interwar period → |
| usedAsPretextFor |
Invasion of Poland
→
surface form: "German invasion of Poland"
outbreak of World War II in Europe → |
| victim | concentration camp prisoners → |
| year | 1939 → |
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form: "Gliwice incident"
this entity surface form: "Gleiwitz radio station attack"
this entity surface form: "German–Polish border incidents"