Comments by "Hermit Oldguy" (@hermitoldguy6312) on "Was the Gleiwitz Incident the SPARK that ignited WW2?" video.

  1. A man contemplating his own execution can usually think of little else.
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  2. There's a question if radio broadcasts from Gleiwitz could reach Berlin - that's 275 miles (440 km). (SW = Short Wave) German Wikipedia says Sender Gleiwitz was built in 1935 and was a MW/SW station (107m to 40m, 2.7MHz to 7MHz). https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Gleiwitz Just a month later, Lord Haw-Haw was being broadcast on SW from Hamburg, to Britain and to the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Haw-Haw The BBC was running the British Empire service on SW from 1932, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_World_Service And the Post Office was running a SW point-to-point radio-telephony/telegraphy network across the British Empire - which I know because it was still going when I did my apprenticeship at just such a SW radio station. I think it started in the 1930's. I could be wrong, of course, but I'd guess Sender Gleiwitz could be heard in Berlin.
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  3. There's a third possibility. Perhaps the raid happened in early August, but the failed radio broadcast meant no-one was aware of it, so they repeated the raid at the end of August - with the precaution of including a radio operator. Hence Naujocks fortnight stay in Gleiwitz.
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  4.  @TheMave34  I could be wrong, but I don't see that you've actually contributed anything.
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  5.  @TheMave34  You made me look again. I understood the radio station to be "In a border town" and naturally assumed the Germany-Poland border. It seems to now be called Gliwice, and is near Ostrava, Czech - is that right? temporary pause.
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