hour earlier, members of the SS, dressed as Polish nationals, had taken over the Gleiwitz radio station on the Polish frontier, where they had dumped corpses—two taken from a concentration camp, the third murdered by lethal injection—and faked an anti-German broadcast. Other staged acts occurred at the customs house at Hochlinden (more concentration camp victims, shot in the woods nearby) and at a deserted forester’s hut at Pitschen. At 4:45 a.m. on Friday, September 1, the guns opened. The war had begun.
