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The Gleiwitz incident (; (ポーランド語:Prowokacja gliwicka)) was a false flag operation by Nazi forces posing as Poles on 31 August 1939, against the German radio station ''Sender Gleiwitz'' in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany (since 1945: Gliwice, Poland) on the eve of World War II in Europe. The goal was to use the staged attack as a pretext for invading Poland. This provocation was the best-known of several actions in Operation Himmler, a series of unconventional operations undertaken by the SS in order to serve specific propaganda goals of Nazi Germany at the outbreak of the war. It was intended to create the appearance of Polish aggression against Germany in order to justify the subsequent invasion of Poland. ==Events at Gleiwitz== Much of what is known about the Gleiwitz incident comes from the affidavit of ''SS-Sturmbannführer'' Alfred Naujocks at the Nuremberg Trials. In his testimony, he stated that he organized the incident under orders from Reinhard Heydrich and Heinrich Müller, chief of the Gestapo.〔 On the night of 31 August 1939, a small group of German operatives, dressed in Polish uniforms and led by Naujocks,〔 seized the Gleiwitz station and broadcast a short anti-German message in Polish (sources vary on the content of the message). The Germans' goal was to make the attack and the broadcast look like the work of anti-German Polish saboteurs.〔〔 To make the attack seem more convincing, the Germans used human props to pass them off as Polish attackers. They murdered Franciszek Honiok, a 43-year-old unmarried German Silesian Catholic farmer, known for sympathizing with the Poles. He had been arrested the previous day by the Gestapo. He was dressed to look like a saboteur; then killed by lethal injection, given gunshot wounds, and left dead at the scene, so that he appeared to have been killed while attacking the station. His corpse was subsequently presented as proof of the attack to the police and press.〔 In addition to Honiok, several prisoners from the Dachau concentration camp〔 were drugged, shot dead on the site, and had their faces smashed up to make identification impossible.〔〔Thomas Laqueur, ('Devoted to Terror,' ) in London Review of Books, Vol. 37 No. 18–24 September 2015, pages 9-16.〕 The Germans referred to them by the code phrase "''Konserve''" ("''canned goods''"). For this reason, some sources incorrectly refer to the incident as "Operation Canned Goods".〔 In an oral testimony at the trials, Erwin von Lahousen stated that his division of the Abwehr was one of two that were given the task of providing Polish uniforms, equipment and identification cards, and that he was later told by Wilhelm Canaris that people from concentration camps had been disguised in these uniforms and ordered to attack the radio stations.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=20 Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Volume 2; Friday, 30 November 1945 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gleiwitz incident」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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