Gleiwitz radio station

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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.

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Generate an image of Gleiwitz 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.)

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Predicate Object
instanceOf broadcasting facility
radio station
associatedWith Adolf Hitler
Heinrich Himmler
linked to: HeinrichHimmler

Reinhard Heydrich
linked to: ReinhardHeydrich
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
linked to: Kattowitz
knownFor Gleiwitz incident
languageOfBroadcast German
locatedIn Gleiwitz
linked to: Kattowitz

Gliwice
Poland
Silesian Voivodeship
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
linked to: Invasion of Poland

outbreak of World War II in Europe

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Gleiwitz incident location Gleiwitz radio station
Gleiwitz incident location Gleiwitz
linked to: Gleiwitz radio station
Überfall auf Polen notableEvent Inszenierter Überfall auf den Sender Gleiwitz
linked to: Gleiwitz radio station