September 1, 1939: Nazi Germany invaded Poland and WWII began.

[Fridays Child]

Will history show that World War III began on March 20, 2003, when the fascist regime of George W. Bush invaded Iraq?

[Finder]

1. Nah, US textbooks will use 9/11/01 just as the average american...

thinks WWII began with Pearl Harbor in 41.

[Fridays Child]

6. That's what U.S. textbooks will say, *if* civilization survives WWIII.

Albert Einstein: "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

[orpupilofnature57]

2. The only difference between Shrub and Hitler and Toni and Chamberlain....

is time.

[Demeter]

3. And Incompetence

[Bigmack]

4. Hey... the Poles invaded Germany!!

Well... that's the phony argument the Germans used to start the war. This is what worries me about the whole shitstorm of propaganda about Iran. Iran is gonna "attack" or "invade" somebody or "bomb" somebody and give Bushco the excuse to jump in. There will be some convenient Iranian bodies left around the scene of whatever black op the US cooks up to start the war.
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"On the night of August 31, 1939 a small group of German operatives led by Naujocks seized the Gleiwitz station and broadcasted a message in Polish that urged the Poles living in Silesia to strike against Germans. The Germans' goal was to make the attack and broadcast look like the work of anti-German Polish insurgents.

In order to make the attack scene more convincing, the Germans brought in Franciszek Honiok, a German Silesian known for sympathizing with the Poles, who had been arrested the previous day by the Gestapo. Honiok was dressed to look like an insurgent; then killed by lethal injection, given gunshot wounds, and left dead at the scene, so that he appeared to have been killed while attacking the station. His corpse was subsequently presented as proof of the attack to the police and press.

In addition to Honiok, several other convicts were kept available for this purpose. The Germans referred to them by the code phrase "Konserve" ("canned goods"). For this reason some sources incorrectly refer to the incident as "Operation Canned Goods".

At the same time as the Gleiwitz attack there were other incidents orchestrated by Germany along the Polish-German border, such as house torching in the Polish Corridor and spurious propaganda output. The entire project, dubbed Operation Himmler and comprising 21 incidents in all, was intended to give the appearance of Polish aggression against Germany."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident



On the day following the Gleiwitz attack, 1 September 1939, Germany launched the Fall Weiss operation — the invasion of Poland — initiating World War II in Europe. In a speech in the Reichstag, Adolf Hitler cited the 21 border incidents, with three of them called very serious, as justification for Germany's "defensive" action against Poland.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Germany fooled the world it was being attacked and had to

retaliate. Germany had its soldiers get dressed in Polish military uniforms and attack Germans living in Poland. Poland was as surprised as the rest of the world when it heard that their country attacked expatriated Germans (although that particular area of land was claimed by Germany).

Poland, Iraq. Same old, same old.

[Radio_Lady]

7. I was three months old the day before. I really don't remember it.

:sarcasm:

[Fridays Child]

8. Um...okay.

September 1, 1939, was more than 15 years before I was born, so I don't remember it, either. :shrug:

[Radio_Lady]

10. My former in-laws were swept up in that war. They were from Danzig

now a part of Poland. My father-in-law told me about Jewish people gunned down or sent to concentration camps.

What an awful time! I am glad they were able to get to the United States.

Let's hope and pray there is no WW III, but I do have my doubts.

Sorry if I got off topic here. I didn't mean to...

Warm regards,

Radio_Lady in Oregon

[Fridays Child]

11. Not off topic, really...

...I just couldn't quite figure out where you were going. :hi:

[Selatius]

9. It's WWIII when we decide to bomb Iran

History will remember that date.

[Radio_Lady]

12. {{shudder}} That point makes my blood run cold... but you could be

right.

Another (grand)mother for peace,

Radio_Lady