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Operation Himmler
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World War II was started with a false flag operation
by the Nazis. Called Operation Himmler, it consisted of
a score of actions designed to create the appearance
that Poland was engaging in agression against Germany.
One such action was the Gleiwitz Incident of August
31, 1939, in which German operatives led by Alfred
Naujocks seized the radio station at Gleiwitz in order
to broadcast messages in Polish urging Poles in Silesia
to attack Germans. The goal was to make it appear that
Polish saboteurs were attempting to foment aggression
against Germans.
To make the fraud more convincing, a Polish prisoner
of the Gestapo, Franciszek Honiok, was dressed in a
Polish uniform and killed, then presented to the press
as proof that the attack was the work of Polish
saboteurs.
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The code name was
"Operation Himler". The SS Gestapo would stage a
fake attack on the German radio station at
Gleiwitz, near the Polish border, using
condemned concentration camp prisoners outfitted
in Polish Army uniforms. Thus Poland would be
blamed for attacking Germany.
A young SS secret-service, Alfred Naujocks,
deserted to the Americans and at Nuremburg
[Trial] made a number of sworn affidavits:
On or about August 10, 1939, the chief of the SD,
Heydrich, personally ordered me to simulate an
attack on the radio station near Gleiwitz near
the Polish border and to make it appear the
attacking force consisted of Poles. Heydrich
said: "Practical proof is needed for for these
attacks on the Poles for the foreign press as
well as for German propaganda."
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The attack, also known "Operation Canned Goods",
consisted of a total of 21 fake terror attacks along the
border on that same night.
The Himmler Operation may have remained a secret if
not for the Nuremberg trials. The operation's leader,
Alfred Naujocks, who had truned himself over to the
Allied forces in November of 1944, was put on trial as a
possible war criminal. He presented to the trial a
written afidavit in which he declared that he had
directed the attack on the radio station under orders
from Reinhard Heydrich and Heinrich Müller. |