A small unit of SS officers posing as Polish partisans got out of the car.
Honiok was dressed in a stolen Polish army uniform.
Honiok didnt resist for he was drugged and barely knew what was happening.
The Gliwice Radio Tower is locally known as the Silesian Eiffel Tower.
But when none was coming forth, Hitler decided to invent one, and Operation Himmler was born.
The bodies were procured from concentration camps that the Nazis ran.
These expendable men were referred to as “Konserve”, or canned goods.
The Gliwice Radio Station now houses a museum.
Within a month we shall be at war with Poland,Heydrich told Naujocks.
The Fuhrer is determined.
But first we have to have something to go to war about.
But there has to be something big and obvious'."
Heydrich then strode over to a wall map of Eastern Europe and jabbed a finger at Gliwice.
This is where you come in.
The Nazis quickly overpowered the guards and intimated the three engineers on duty to transmit an anti-German message.
Rozglosnia znajduje sie w rekach Polskich.
The broadcasting station is in Polish hands.)
For decades nobody talked about this man, and there has been no commemoration in Poland honoring his death.
His own family was reluctant to bring up the subject, and was too afraid to ask questions.
They dont even know where is body was buried.
Naujocks died two years later.
He never faced a war-crimes tribunal.
Its building now houses a museum dedicated to the incident.
The massive wooden tower now carries aerials for mobile phone services and FM broadcasting.
The site itself now belongs to Poland.
Gliwice Radio Tower at night.
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