Editing Gleiwitz incident (section)

==Context==
[[File:Glivice plaque.JPG|thumb|Plaque on site commemorating the incident]]
The Gleiwitz incident was a part of a larger operation carried out by ''Abwehr'' and SS forces.<ref name="WirtzGordon"/> Other orchestrated incidents were conducted along the Polish–German border at the same time as the Gleiwitz attack, such as a house burning in the [[Polish Corridor]] and spurious propaganda. The project was called [[Operation Himmler]] and comprised incidents intended to give the appearance of Polish aggression against Germany.<ref name="Hitler"/><ref name="Lightbody"/> German newspapers and politicians, including [[Adolf Hitler]], had made accusations against Polish authorities for months before the 1939 invasion of organising or tolerating violent [[ethnic cleansing]] of [[Volksdeutsche|ethnic Germans]] living in Poland.<ref name="Hitler"/><ref name="German Editor"/> On 1 September, the day following the Gleiwitz attack, Germany launched ''[[Fall Weiss (1939)|Fall Weiss]]'' (Case White), the strategic plan for the [[invasion of Poland]], which precipitated [[European theatre of World War II|World War II]] in Europe. Hitler cited the border incidents in a speech in the [[Reichstag (Weimar Republic)|Reichstag]] on the same day, with three of them called very serious, as justification for his invasion of Poland.<ref name="Hitler"/> Hitler had told his generals on 22 August, "I will provide a propagandistic [[casus belli]]. Its credibility doesn't matter. The victor will not be asked whether he told the truth".<ref name="WirtzGordon"/><ref name="Lightbody"/>