# Americans awake to a major terrorist attack: How many of us automatically suspect a false flag?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-awake-to-a-major-terrorist-attack-how-many-of-us-automatically-suspect-a-false-flag/780146>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 18, 2017, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-awake-to-a-major-terrorist-attack-how-many-of-us-automatically-suspect-a-false-flag/780146 "2017-02-18T14:44:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 4

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2017, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-awake-to-a-major-terrorist-attack-how-many-of-us-automatically-suspect-a-false-flag/780146/61 "2017-02-20T22:06:19Z")

</div>

> [@RealityChuck](#):
>
> I’d love to see one concrete example of a false flag (and, no, the Reichstag fire was not one\*). “False flag” is just a rallying cry for conspiracy theorists who have limited grasp of how things work outside of comic books.
> 
> .

Gleiwitz incident. But that one was pretty damn obvious.

> **[Gleiwitz incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident)**
>
> The Gleiwitz incident (German: Überfall auf den Sender Gleiwitz; Polish: Prowokacja gliwicka) was a false flag attack on the radio station Sender Gleiwitz in Gleiwitz (then Germany and now Gliwice, Poland) staged by Nazi Germany on the night of 31 August 1939. Along with some two dozen similar incidents, the attack was manufactured by Germany as a casus belli to justify the invasion of Poland. Prior to the invasion, Adolf Hitler gave a radio address condemning the acts and announcing German pla...

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-awake-to-a-major-terrorist-attack-how-many-of-us-automatically-suspect-a-false-flag/780146.md?page=3)