The Fake Invasion at Gleiwitz that Started World War II

In the late evening of Thursday, August 31, 1939, German covert operatives pretending to be Polish terrorists seized the Gleiwitz radio station in the German/Poland border region of Silesia.
The station's music program came to an abrupt halt, followed by frantic German voices announcing that Polish formations were marching toward town; Germany was being invaded by Poland!
Then, like a bad imitation of the previous year's infamous War of the Worlds broadcast, the transmission went dead for a

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