Posted on 09/18/2002 2:28:48 PM PDT by vannrox
Edited on 04/12/2004 5:44:10 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
"Polish regular officers fired on our territory. Since 5:45 a.m. we have been returning the fire."
WASHINGTON -- It was a particularly contemptible case of vice paying homage to virtue when Hitler spoke those words -- "returning fire," indeed -- in the first hours of the Second World War. But the virtue -- having a casus belli before going to war -- is so universally acknowledged that even Hitler paid homage to it. Immediately before Hitler attacked Poland, the SS staged a provocation -- a "Polish" attack on a German radio station near Poland's border, a sham that included corpses of German "victims" -- actually, concentration camp inmates shot by the SS.
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"Polish regular officers fired on our territory. Since 5:45 a.m. we have been returning the fire."
-- Adolph Hitler, Sept. 1, 1939
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