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This is the third in a series of posts about the first days of World War II, which, as all will know, occurred eighty years ago this weekend.
The false-flag attack on the radio station at Gleiwitz in German Upper Silesia (now Gliwice, Poland) at about 8 pm on 31 August 1939 was only second-page news across Germany the next morning. It remains, perhaps along the Reichstag fire, one of history’s best-known false-flag events.
How much did the “attack” affect the ordinary non-Nazi German’s view on Poland and the war? What about the Nazi ones? That is, was it necessary, or would people have marched in step with Hitler anyway?
The corollary: what if Operation Himmler was conducted on a larger scale, with many Gleiwitz-type “incidents”?