Gleiwitz radio station

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Gleiwitz radio station was a German broadcasting facility in the town of Gleiwitz (now Gliwice, Poland), historically known as the site of the staged 1939 Gleiwitz incident used by Nazi Germany as a pretext to invade Poland.

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This AI-generated illustration was produced by black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-dev (1024x1024) from a prompt written by openai/gpt-oss-120b from the entity's label + description.

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Generate an image of Gleiwitz radio station (Gleiwitz radio station was a German broadcasting facility in the town of Gleiwitz (now Gliwice, Poland), historically known as the site of the staged 1939 Gleiwitz incident used by Nazi Germany as a pretext to invade Poland.)

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Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf broadcasting facility ⓘ
radio station ⓘ
associatedWith Adolf Hitler ⓘ
Heinrich Himmler ⓘ
linked to: HeinrichHimmler

Reinhard Heydrich ⓘ
linked to: ReinhardHeydrich
broadcastArea German-Polish border region ⓘ
Upper Silesia ⓘ
category False flag operations ⓘ
History of Nazi Germany ⓘ
History of Poland ⓘ
Radio stations in Europe ⓘ
continent Europe ⓘ
country Germany ⓘ
currentCountry Poland ⓘ
currentNameOfTown Gliwice ⓘ
dateOfEvent 1939-08-31 ⓘ
era World War II ⓘ
interwar period ⓘ
event staged attack by Nazi operatives disguised as Polish aggressors ⓘ
function broadcasting radio programs ⓘ
historicalCountry Nazi Germany ⓘ
Weimar Republic ⓘ
historicalNameOfTown Gleiwitz ⓘ
linked to: Kattowitz
knownFor Gleiwitz incident ⓘ
languageOfBroadcast German ⓘ
locatedIn Gleiwitz ⓘ
linked to: Kattowitz

Gliwice ⓘ
Poland ⓘ
Silesian Voivodeship ⓘ
Upper Silesia ⓘ
locatedInTimeZone Central European Summer Time ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ
mediaType radio ⓘ
notableEvent false-flag attack staged by Nazi Germany in 1939 ⓘ
operationName Operation Himmler ⓘ
operator German broadcasting authorities ⓘ
originalCountry Germany ⓘ
partOf Operation Himmler ⓘ
perpetrator Nazi Germany ⓘ
SS ⓘ
significance site of a staged attack used as a pretext for the German invasion of Poland in 1939 ⓘ
usedAsPretextFor German invasion of Poland ⓘ
linked to: Invasion of Poland

outbreak of World War II in Europe ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Gleiwitz incident → location → Gleiwitz radio station ⓘ
Gleiwitz incident → location → Gleiwitz ⓘ
linked to: Gleiwitz radio station
Überfall auf Polen → notableEvent → Inszenierter Überfall auf den Sender Gleiwitz ⓘ
linked to: Gleiwitz radio station