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Is it true: Operation Himmler / Gleiwitz incident (Aug 31 1939)?

Confirmed5% confidence

Yes — this is confirmed.

Alfred Naujocks's 1945 affidavit to the Nuremberg Military Tribunal (PS-2751) directly describes his command of the Gleiwitz operation on Heydrich's orders. Corroborated by German military and diplomatic records, internal SS "Konserve" communications, and post-war Polish forensic investigations. The false-flag nature is established beyond reasonable historical dispute.

The claim

On 31 August 1939, SS Sturmbannführer Alfred Naujocks led a staged false-flag attack on the German radio station at Gleiwitz (now Gliwice, Poland). Concentration camp prisoners and local Silesian acti

Key evidence

Naujocks affidavit (PS-2751) — direct first-hand testimony

Naujocks escaped Allied custody after the war

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