Gleiwitz Incident
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| Date | 31 August 1939 |
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| Description | The excuse for an invasion of Poland, starting World War II |
| Perpetrators | Alfred Naujocks, Gestapo, Germany |
| Blamed on | Poland |
The Gleiwitz Incident' was a false flag attack, planned by the Nazis' Operation Himmler. It was used as the cascus belli for WWII against Poland.
The Russian Red Army also carried out a false flag in 1939, the Shelling of Mainila, as a casus belli for the Winter War which was launched 4 days later.
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Alfred Naujocks testified at the Nuremberg Trials about this.