RADIO STATION ATTACKED, HITLER VOWS REPRISAL
Berlin, Germany • August 31, 1939 On August 22, 1939, in a meeting at his Bavarian mountaintop retreat, the Berghof, Adolf Hitler told his generals he would fabricate “a propagandistic reason” to justify his planned aggression against neighboring Poland. The plan was for Nazi Party Schutzstaffel (SS) operatives to dress in Polish uniforms, attack a…