WW2 began on 31 October 1939.
On the evening of August 31, 1939, members of Nazi Germany’s paramilitary organization, the “Schutzstaffel” (SS) occupied a radio station in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia — then Germany and now Gliwice, Poland. They pretended to be Polish soldiers and broadcast a message in Polish calling for armed struggle against Nazi Germany.
The goal was to give the impression that Polish soldiers had attacked and taken control of the German radio station.
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