At 4: 40am on September 1 Sunday, 1939, the German Air Force officially began bombing the Polish Air Force Base. Five minutes later, the ground troops crossed the border between Germany and Poland and entered Poland. At the same time, a German warship appeared in the early morning mist and began to bomb the Polish fortress in Sieprath.
The night before, the prelude to the war slowly began. Germany tried to find a grand reason for Hitler's unprovoked attack on Poland.
In Grewitz, near the Polish border, a prisoner in a German concentration camp was killed by SS commandos for attacking a radio station. The action organized by the Gestapo leader Reinhart heydrich was a conspiracy.
On the night of August 3 1, a small group of disguised Polish SS members destroyed this remote radio station. They shot into the air and took over the radio station.
1 September 9391,two German army groups * * * 1.6 million people invaded Poland on a large scale. The audience who were listening to the radio heard the gunshots, and a voice with a Polish accent announced: "Polish people! The war between Poland and Germany is about to begin, unite and defeat the Germans and all Germans who oppose your war! " In order to hide people's eyes and ears, the unfortunate concentration camp prisoner was killed after being dressed as a radio worker, and his body was placed at the scene of the incident for global media coverage.
The next day, Hitler declared that Germany and Poland were in a state of war, and the Grewitz incident was one of the reasons for his invasion. Although the Polish high command mobilized the people all over the country on August 30th, most Polish reservists have not yet arrived, and many troops are still on their way to the front. But the German invasion still shocked the Poles.
Therefore, when Germany began to attack crazily, the German invaders quickly defeated the Polish border guards. /kloc-in the evening of September, 2000, they began to exchange fire with the main forces on the Polish front.
So, how did the Grewitz incident come out?
On August 22nd, 1939, a group of German generals listened to Adolf Hitler's instructions in Lu Haijun. The Fuehrer summoned them to his secluded rural house in Upper Salzburg and briefly issued the order to go to war.
Hitler said that Poland would be attacked by 6.5438+0.5 million troops and hundreds of armored forces gathered on its border. The attack day "Y Day" is set to September 1. Attack launch time: 4: 30 am; Goal: completely destroy Poland, a sovereign country.
Soon, German leaders learned of Hitler's sudden plan codenamed "Operation Himmler". At least Hitler thought that this plan would provide "a bloody provocation" and prove to the German people that Poland started the trouble first, and Hitler used the Wehrmacht to retaliate against Poland's "rudeness".
Hitler's elaborate plot was operated by heinrich himmler, the leader of SS who was good at plot planning. Alfred Nochox, Himmler's most trusted young SS officer, was responsible for the concrete implementation.
Now, Naujocks is ready for that spectacular scam. He hid in Opalin, a town near the Polish border, for six days. At noon on August 3 1 day-just one day before "y day", Berlin authorities suddenly ordered Joecks to take action that day.
12 the german prisoners codenamed "canned food" were taken out of prison and sent to Oparin to change into polish military uniforms. Now, they were injected with drugs by an SS doctor who swore to secrecy.
Nau Joxe and his SS personnel also put on Polish uniforms. At 8 o'clock in the evening, they and the drugged prisoners arrived in the suburb of Radio Grewitz, which is only a few miles from Poland.
The telegram sent back by Naujocks showed that his entourage took the prisoners to their destination and shot them one by one. Subsequently, Naujocks and his entourage rushed into the radio station and fired at the ceiling continuously. A member of the SS who speaks fluent Polish shouted provocative slogans through a radio transmitter. Finally, the SS quickly fled from there.
The next morning, German newspaper photographers and journalists flocked to radio Grewitz. A few hours later, all the publications of the Third Reich published photos of "Polish soldiers" killed by "German soldiers guarding radio stations", which easily aroused strong public indignation. In this way, the Fuehrer found an excuse to invade Poland.
At dawn, Hitler launched a large-scale "counterattack" against the "Polish invaders". Heavily armed mechanized troops were ordered to attack. Its speed, strength and flexibility have forged a new word-blitzkrieg in the languages of many nationalities.