Nazi Conspiracy & Aggression
Prior to the invasion of Poland by Germany, "border
incidents" were fabricated by the GESTAPO and SD for the
purpose of furnishing Hitler with an excuse to wage war.
(2751-PS)
Early in August, 1939, the plan was conceived by the Chief
of the Security Police and SD, Heydrich, to stage simulated
border raids by personnel of the GESTAPO and SD dressed as
Poles. To add authenticity, it was planned to take certain
prisoners from concentration camps, kill them by use of
hypodermic injections, and leave their bodies, clad in
Polish uniforms, at the various places where the incidents
were planned to occur. The Chief of the GESTAPO, Mueller,
took a directing hand in these actions, which were staged on
31 August 1939 in Beuthen, Hindenburg, Gleiwitz, and
elsewhere.
The leader of the SD agents who made the pretended attack on
the Gleiwitz radio station on 31 August, said:
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"4. Mueller told me that he had an order from Heydrich
to make one of those criminals available to me for the
action at Gleiwitz. The code name by which he referred
to these criminals was 'Canned Goods.'
"The incident at Gleiwitz in which I participated was
carried out on the evening preceding the German attack
on Poland. As I recall, war broke out on 1 September
1939. At noon of the 31st August I received by
telephone from Heydrich the code word for the attack
which was to take place at 8 o'clock that evening.
Heydrich said, 'In order to carry out this attack
report to Mueller for Canned Goods.' I did this and
gave Mueller instructions to deliver the man near the
radio station. I received this man and had him laid
down at the entrance to the station. He was alive but
he was completely unconscious. I tried to open his
eyes. I could not recognize by his eyes that he was
alive, only by his breathing. I did not see the shot
wounds but a lot of blood was smeared across his face.
He was in civilian clothes.
"6. We seized the radio station as ordered, broadcast a
speech of three to four minutes over an emergency
transmitter, fired some pistol shots and left." (2751-
PS; 2479-PS)
These were the "frontier incidents" to which Hitler referred
in his speech to the Reichstag on 1 September 1939. (Adolf
Hitler, "My New Order," Reynal and Hitchcock, Inc., 1941, p.
687.)
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Volume II
Criminality of Groups and Organizations
The Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo) & Sicherheitsdienst
(Part 5 of 9)
E. Crimes of the GESTAPO and SD against the Peace.
"*** In my presence, Mueller discussed with a man named
Mehlhorn plans for another border incident, in which it
should be made to appear that Polish soldiers were
attacking German troops. Germans in the approximate
strength of a company were to be used. Mueller stated
that he had 12 or 13 condemned criminals who were to be
dressed in Polish uniforms and left dead on the ground
of the scene of the incident, to show that they had
been killed while attacking. For
this purpose they were to be given fatal injections by
a doctor employed by Heydrich. Then they were also to
be given gunshot wounds. After the incident members of
the press and other persons were to be taken to the
spot of the incident. A police report was subsequently
to be prepared.