[From “Gleiwitz - The False Flag That Never Was”]

The Gleiwitz incident on 31. August 1939 on the eve of the German offensive against Poland is a key propagandistic trope supposed to show German responsibility for the start of World War 2[…]
First, it has to be pointed out that the notoriety of the Gleiwitz incident is purely a post World War 2 phenomenon. At the time, it received little attention and any mention in the press was only a short blip[…]
The Gleiwitz incident most certainly played no noticeable part in the German justification for going to war against Poland[…]in the Whitebook published by the German Foreign Ministry about the prehistory of the war, Gleiwitz is only mentioned in a few lines in a list of violent incidents instigated by Polish troops and insurgents[…]
There has never been any documentary evidence presented that would indicate that the Gleiwitz raid – or any of the other border incidents in the time before the war – was a German ‘false flag’[…]Essentially the only evidence is the testimony of Alfred Naujocks, a member of the SD (Sicherheitsdienst) secret service who had defected to the Allies on 19. October 1944[…]
Under these circumstances, the logical place to look for more information would normally be the files of the German police and other authorities concerned with the incident[…]
Other than this short report, there is a strange silence regarding actual contemporary official documents in the files, there is no mention of such even in a negative sense i.e. that they cannot be found or have been destroyed[…]
This brings us to another aspect that the case files show very distinctly, namely why German defendants often would confirm made up Allied propaganda claims. One reason usually cited is the systematic torture of German prisoners by the Allies, but another very powerful motivation is the hope that by playing along with the narrative and giving the powers that be what they want to get less bad treatment