Editing Gleiwitz incident (section)

==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 organised the incident under orders from [[Reinhard Heydrich]] and [[Heinrich Müller (Gestapo)|Heinrich Müller]], chief of the [[Gestapo]].<ref name="Nuremberg"/> On the night of 31 August, a small group of German operatives dressed in Polish uniforms and led by Naujocks seized the Gleiwitz station and broadcast a short [[anti-German sentiment|anti-German]] message in Polish (sources vary on the content of the message).<ref name="Ailsby"/>  The operation was named "''Grossmutter gestorben''" (Grandmother died).<ref name="Interview with Naujocks">{{cite news |title=Grossmutter Gestorben |url=https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-46172747.html |website=Der Spiegel |date=12 November 1963 |publisher=Spiegel-Verlag |access-date=22 November 2020}}</ref> The operation was to make the attack and the broadcast look like the work of Polish anti-German saboteurs.<ref name="Ailsby"/><ref name="WirtzGordon"/> The operation was planned and carried out from the [[Sławięcice Palace (Schloss Slawentzitz)]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Pałac w Sławięcicach i jego wojenna historia. Miał 45 pokoi i wielką salę balową. Co się z nim stało?' (The palace in Sławięcice and its wartime history. It had 45 rooms and a large ballroom. What has happened to it?)  |url=https://kedzierzynkozle.naszemiasto.pl/palac-w-slawiecicach-i-jego-wojenna-historia-mial-45-pokoi/ar/c15-8433385 |website=kedzierzynkozle.naszemiasto.pl |date=1 September 2021 |access-date=28 February 2023}}</ref>

To make the attack seem more convincing, the Gestapo executed [[Franciszek Honiok]], a 43-year-old unmarried Upper Silesian<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120314190818/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/6106566/World-War-IIs-first-victim.html The World War II's first victim. A farmer was murdered as part of a Nazi plot to provide an excuse to invade Poland, the story of a man forgotten by history.] By Bob Graham, 29 Aug 2009. The Telegraph.</ref> Catholic farmer, known for sympathising with the Poles. He had been arrested the previous day by the Gestapo and dressed to look like a [[saboteur]], then rendered unconscious by an injection of drugs, then killed by gunshot wounds.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/6106566/World-War-IIs-first-victim.html |title=World War II's first victim – Telegraph |website=www.telegraph.co.uk |access-date=11 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314190818/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/6106566/World-War-IIs-first-victim.html |archive-date=14 March 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Honiok was left dead at the scene so that he appeared to have been killed while attacking the station. His corpse was then presented to the police and press as proof of the attack.<ref name="Franciszek Honiok"/> Several prisoners from the [[Dachau concentration camp]] were drugged, shot dead on the site and their faces disfigured to make identification impossible.<ref name="Ailsby"/><ref name="WirtzGordon"/><ref>[[Thomas Laqueur]], [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n18/thomas-laqueur/devoted-to-terror 'Devoted to Terror,'] in [[London Review of Books]], Vol. 37 No. 18–24 September 2015, pp. 9–16.</ref> The Germans referred to them by the code phrase "''Konserve''" (canned goods). Some sources incorrectly refer to the incident as Operation Canned Goods.<ref name="Lightbody"/>

In an oral testimony at the Nuremberg Trials, [[Erwin von Lahousen]] stated that his division of the ''[[Abwehr]]'' was one of two that were given the task of providing [[Polish Army]] uniforms, equipment and identification cards; 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.<ref name="Lahousen">{{cite web|url=http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/11-30-45.asp|title=20 Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Volume 2; Friday, 30 November 1945|access-date=8 November 2012|publisher=[[Avalon Project]]}}</ref>

[[Oskar Schindler]] played a role in supplying the Polish uniforms and weapons used in the operation as an agent for the ''[[Abwehr]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Lebovic|first=Matt|title=80 years ago, how a very different Schindler's 'list' helped ignite WWII|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/80-years-ago-how-a-very-different-schindlers-list-helped-ignite-wwii/|access-date=2020-10-08|website=www.timesofisrael.com|language=en-US}}</ref>