Вот что об этом писала газета "The New York Times" 1 сентября 1939 г.:
Quote:
Border Clashes Increase
Wireless to The New York Times.
BERLIN, Friday, Sept. 1. — An increasing number of border incidents involving shooting and mutual Polish-German casualties are reported by the German press and radio. The most serious is reported from Gleiwitz, a German city on the line where the southwestern portion of Poland meets the Reich.
At 8 P. M., according to the semi-official news agency, a group of Polish insurrectionists forced an entrance into the Gleiwitz radio station, overpowering the watchmen and beating and generally mishandling the attendants. The Gleiwitz station was relaying a Breslau station's program, which was broken off by the Poles.
They proceeded to broadcast a prepared proclamation, partly in Polish and partly in German, announcing themselves as "the Polish Volunteer Corps of Upper Silesia speaking from the Polish station in Gleiwitz." The city, they alleged, was in Polish hands.
Gleiwitz's surprised radio listeners notified the police, who halted the broadcast and exchanged fire with the insurrectionists, killing one and capturing the rest. The police are said to have discovered that the attackers were assisted by regular Polish troops.
The Gleiwitz incident is alleged here to have been the signal "for a general attack by Polish franctireurs on German territory."
Two other points — Pitschen, near Kreuzburg, and Hochlinden, northeast of Ratibor, both in the same vicinity as Gleiwitz, were the scenes of violations of the German boundary, it is claimed, with fighting at both places still under way.
The attackers were all said to be heavily armed and supported by details of the regular Polish Army. But it is further reported that German border guards repulsed all the attempts.
Polish insurrectionists and soldiers are alleged to have stormed the Hochlinden Custom House, which was recaptured by Germans after a battle lasting for an hour and a half. The number of dead and.wounded was not determined because of darkness, but fourteen Poles, including six soldiers, were captured.