Thursday, May 10, 2007

Guess That Geographical Location—May 10, 2007

Put your thinkin’ cap on…

 

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Congrats to Fraley.

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This is the Gliwice Radio Tower in Gliwice, Poland..

In the late summer of 1939, Hitler finally settled on September 1, 1939 as the date on which he would launch his invasion of Poland.  In a pretty lame effort to provide justification for the invasion, Germany launched Operation Himmler.  As part of the Operation, German agents would launch 21 separate operations to give the appearance of Polish aggression against Germany.  The most famous of these efforts was an attack against the German radio station in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany (now Gliwice, Poland).

As part of the effort, the German agents seized the Gleiwitz station and broadcast a message in Polish that urged the Poles living in Silesia to strike against Germans.  For a scapegoat, the Germans brought in Franciszek Honiok, a German Silesian known for sympathizing with the Poles.  The Germans dressed Honiok to look like a saboteur, then killed him by lethal injection and shot his body to make it appear as if he was killed while attacking the station.

In his subsequent speech to the country announcing the invasion, Hitler cited the 21 border incidents as justification for Germany’s “defensive” action against Poland.

Amazingly, the tower has survived, and today it serves as a cell phone tower.

(12) Comments
Posted by Jed at 0700 hrs
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  1. Is that the tower that took down the Hindenburg?  Eh… probably not.  Looks to be the wrong shape.

    Posted by Owen on May 10, 2007 at 0724 hrs


  2. Eiffel Tower, DUH!

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 10, 2007 at 0730 hrs


  3. The tower at Lakehurst is long gone.  Here’s where the Hindenburg crashed, though.

    Posted by Jed on May 10, 2007 at 0746 hrs


  4. ...looks like the Channel 6 tower to me…

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 10, 2007 at 0802 hrs


  5. It’s the oil well on the Oklahoma State Capitol grounds!

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 10, 2007 at 0959 hrs


  6. As with all of these posts, the site is historically important.

    Posted by Jed on May 10, 2007 at 1002 hrs


  7. It’s in the land of our newest best friend.
    France.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 10, 2007 at 1059 hrs


  8. This will probably be too big of a hint, but…

    It’s in Europe.

    Posted by Jed on May 10, 2007 at 1142 hrs


  9. The Eiffel Tower is in Europe, right?

    I’ll say the first radio tower to be used to broadcast radio free Europe across the Iron Curtain

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 10, 2007 at 1201 hrs


  10. Tower used by Marconi?

    Posted by Fraley on May 10, 2007 at 1226 hrs


  11. Sender Gleiwitz?

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 10, 2007 at 1230 hrs


  12. See the extended entry for details.

    Posted by Jed on May 10, 2007 at 1303 hrs


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