To justify their invasion of Poland at the start of WWII, Nazi high command hatches a secret plan: six Polish men from an SS training camp are sent on a special mission to the town of Gleiwitz, to fake a Polish raid on Germany. The ‘provoked’ Germans will thus launch a ‘counterattack’ on Poland.

• DirectorGerhard Klein
• Release23 August 1961
• Genre
  Drama / History
• Duration1h 4m
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  6.6
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  DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme