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In the News (Wed 23 Dec 09)

  
  Muzeum w Gliwicach
The circumstances and course of the Gliwice provocation were explained in the fullest way during the trial before the Nurnberg court of justice during subsequent hearing sessions on the 24th day of the trial (Dec. 20, 1945) and on the 212th day of the trial (Aug. 27th, 1946), submitted by Alfred H. Naujocks.
The Gliwice Radio Station constitutes a structure whose position and symbolic significance bound with the so-called Gliwice provocation in the history of the 20th century have been inspiring for numerous film directors and writers.
The truth about the Gliwice provocation was discovered as late as during the Nurnberg trial.
www.muzeum.gliwice.pl /en/radiostacja   (1259 words)

  
 provocation - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about provocation
However, the defence has been criticized as an acceptance of male violence (since the provoked is usually male) and also as justifying an outmoded desire for retaliation that is inappropriate in modern society.
A TURBULENT Person was brought before a Judge to be tried for an assault with intent to commit murder, and it was proved that he had been variously obstreperous without apparent provocation, had affected the peripheries of several luckless fellow-citizens with the trunk of a small tree, and subsequently cleaned out the town.
The other phase of the death-road was that of the habitual drunkards, who had a way of turning up their toes without apparent provocation.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /provocation   (232 words)

  
 The Apostolic Visit of the Holy Father John Paul II in Gliwice
The cross refers to the aerial mast, which is related to the events of "Gliwice provocation" and the beginning of the second world war.
The diocese of Gliwice as well as our whole metropolis is truly "a Land of Reconciled Variety", a variety of national and cultural trends which composes one spiritual-religious organism, where - like in a mosaic - that which is Polish, German and Moravian forms a whole.
It is She who defended Gliwice against the army of the Danish general Mansfeld in 1626.
www.kuria.gliwice.pl /papa/an/upper.html   (877 words)

  
 Concergie of Hotel Diament Gliwice.
In the western part of the Gliwice market place there is a rectangular pool, with the sandstone sculpture of Neptun on a dolphin.
The fountain faces the building of the Gliwice Town Hall in Zwyciestwa St. The sculpture of the three fauns dancing and holding hands was designed by H. Damann and cast in Gliwice Steelworks in 1928.
The buildings of the old Gliwice radio station, together with the 100-meter yew-tree mast were constructed in 1935.
www.hoteldiament.pl /english/gliwice/concergie.html   (1476 words)

  
 Museum in Gliwice :: Caro Villa  ·  Piast's Castle  ·  Artistic Casting Department
Following the decision of the City Council taken on the December 2, 2004, Museum on Radio History and Visual Arts is located in the previous Radio Transmitter (Germ.: Gleiwitzer Sender) where the infamous attack on Radio Transmitter, organized by the secret Nazi police took place on the August 31, 1939.
The event was used by the German propaganda as one of the reasons to start the WW II.
The complex of the radio station buildings was constructed in the period 1934 – 35 by a German company Lorenz (co-operation: Siemens, Telefunken, and others).
www.muzeum.gliwice.pl /en/news_fullpage.php?nid=677&ret_top=/en/index.php   (1470 words)

  
 Gliwice provocation. Broadcasting station.
The truth about the Gliwice provocation was discovered as late as during the Nuremberg case.
In 2002 the local government of Gliwice purchased the premises from  Telekomunikacja Polska (Polish Telecommunications), which had been the owner of the radio station since 1945.
Everybody travelling through Gliwice along the old route from Berlin to Cracow can notice the tall silhouette of the aerial tower from a long distance.
republika.pl /radiostacjagliwicka/foldery/FoldeRAng.htm   (804 words)

  
 Propozycje wycieczek organizowanych przez PTSM - Ślązaczek
All Saints- Church in gothic style built in 2nd half of XVc, Piast Castle from XIVc - the seat of Municipal Museum branch.
Palm House - where at the four modern exhibition pavilions (which cover an area of 2000 square m2) about 6000 flora specimens from different corners of the world are gathered.
Gliwice Radio Tower (Radiostation) with the highest wooden broadcast tower in the world (110m) - the place where Nazi provocation took place on 31.08.1939.
www.zsti.gliwice.pl /ptsm/inne/pliki/en/propozy.htm   (534 words)

  
 Breaking Christian News - Printer-Friendly Version   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Auschwitz chimney is not the only strategic location, though, that has been chosen by Krol, from which to broadcast the Gospel.
Another of his Christian radio stations is broadcasting in Gliwice, via antennae on top of the historic timber radio tower.
According to the ANS report, the location was the exact place where the Gliwice German provocation triggered the beginning of WWII.
www.breakingchristiannews.com /articles/display_art_pf.html?ID=973   (272 words)

  
 Polish National Tourist Office in London
The borderland character of the region is proved by the dozen of fortified castles on the Krakowsko-Czestochowska Upland, poetically known as the Eagles' Nest Route.
They are particularly concentrated in several communities such as Gliwice, Lubliniec, Pszczyna, Rybnik and in the foothills of the Beskid Slaski, in the region of Bielsko-Biala, Cieszyn and Zywiec.
The wooden churches are a delight to everyone who is sensitive to beauty, with their aesthetic and yet simple shape, with the picturesque surface quality of the walls' construction materials, made of larch, pine or fir wood, together with the shingle roofs that cover particular parts of their structure.
www.poland.dial.pipex.com /whattodo_silesia.htm   (3231 words)

  
 Mr. D's Skeptic Tank
Roosevelt wanted a war with Germany to stop Hitler, but despite several provocations in the Atlantic, the American people, still struggling with that troublesome economy, were opposed to any wars.
Whereas Hitler would never declare war on the United States no matter the provocation, the means to force Japan to do so were readily at hand.
And most of all, he needed a provocation to convince the people that there was really "no other choice".
pub36.bravenet.com /forum/3014139213/fetch/637333   (2948 words)

  
 09-07-2004
People were listening carefully, but there was one man who immediately interrupted me and said that he disagrees with me and tried to sway the conversation to another, totally off topic, theme.
I knew already who exactly this guy was, because I've seen this kind of provocation before, but I let him talk and he was very articulate and knew his "subject of interest", as if the important facts I was presenting there didn't mean anything to him.
The Gleiwitz incident refers to a staged attack against a German radio station in Gleiwitz (nowadays Gliwice) on August 31, 1939.
www.anti-communistanalyst.com /09072004.html   (3074 words)

  
 Hans-Böckler-Stiftung   
They faced the threat of cuts in the workforce and a worsening of their terms and conditions of employment.
Employee representatives saw the approach taken by the GM management as a provocation.
The European Works Council of GM Europe, which was in contact with the EWC at FIAT, reacted to this provocation with a Europe-wide campaign that forced GM management to the negotiating table.
www.boeckler.de /cps/rde/xchg/SID-3D0AB75D-F9E5CF69/hbs/hs.xsl/164_28984.html   (2193 words)

  
 Polish Consulate...
Warsaw, Gliwice, Oct. 21: A special Sejm subcommittee will deal with a Sejm draft resolution, submitted by the League of Polish Families LPR, on declaring void the Polish government declaration of 23 August, 1953, which said Poland resigned from war reparations.
Gliwice, Oct.21: It is the objective of Poland's economic policy to join the euro zone, but "not at all costs and at breakneck speed," prime minister Marek Belka said at a press conference Thursday.
Gliwice, Oct.21: The 500,000th car rolled off the assembly line of the Opel Polska plant in Gliwice on Thursday.
www.polish.motime.com /archive/2004-10   (11791 words)

  
 Round Hill Community Church - "The Great Forgiveness" Matthew 18: 21-35
Which is why learning forgiveness is so centrally important as we seek to follow the way of Jesus, as unfettered and free and forgiven human beings, into the experience of the kingdom and taste the abundant life he promises.
As opportunity presented itself late in the spring of 1945, with the war continuing in Berlin, Lola was put in charge of overseeing 1,000 captured men in Nazi fl who were imprisoned in the city of Gliwice.
And there she got her revenge as she ordered the men stripped naked, beat them and slapped them, herded them into shower rooms where they thought they would be gassed to death.
www.roundhillcommunitychurch.org /article.php?story=20040312150438844   (2749 words)

  
 Wikinfo | World War II atrocities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The lowest number given for German victims was around 600.
Nazi propaganda reported 60,000 people and used it as the second pretext for repression against Poles (after Provocation in Gliwice).
In addition to the events in Bromberg, throughout western Poland a portion of the German residents were rounded up, jailed, marched eastward, shot and buried in nearby woods.
www.internet-encyclopedia.org /wiki.php?title=World_War_II_atrocities   (2231 words)

  
 biulet0301   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
It is true that the character of scientific work and organization of a typical research institute are not consistent, and not only in Poland, with the common idea of collective negotiations of work conditions.
However it is to underline that those methods are applied in actually difficult situations with a risk of financial collapse of the institution.
Experience of Gliwice’s Institutions of PAN with regard to employment streamlining indicate that a radical reduction of administration employees leads to considerable improvement of financial standing of the institutions.
www.pan.pl /solidarnosc_pan/biulet0301.html   (7060 words)

  
 The Forum of the 1.Jagdmoroner Abteilung - Jews in "Polish" commie Security
It is said in response that the provocation came from Stalin, but again there are no supporting facts, except that it was convenient for him to do so.
During his interrogation at the militia headquarters in Gliwice, van Calsteren tried to explain that he was born in the Hague and was a Dutch citizen.
Asked whether he knew that he would be released to the Polish town of Gliwice and whether he wanted to receive Polish citizenship, Gruschka replied that he comes from Gliwice, ?and Gliwice is, after all, a German town?[62].
www.1jma.dk /topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6040&whichpage=2   (15762 words)

  
 Anarchie.de - [LPA] (eng): Polish Anarchist Black Cross Infobulletin #4 (f
Policemen behaved in provocative way, which resulted eventually in fights between part of the gig participants and police.
What is more, the film showed the commander of the police operation kicking a person who was lying down.
About 10 squatters were detained during a police provocation near the Kromera squat in Wroclaw in May this year.
www.anarchie.de /main-17121.html   (1955 words)

  
 IMF NewsBriefs November 15, 2004| 21st Century Labor Union | IAMAW
No direct provocation from the police took place during the meeting.
Production was slowed in the afternoon, following a shortage of parts caused by the strikes at Bochum.
- Meetings were to be held at the Opel factory in Gliwice where a solidarity demonstration was staged.
www.goiam.org /content.cfm?cID=3986   (2729 words)

  
 The Society for Arts
It is supposed to discover the parts that are beyond the reach of sensual perception, but it must not become an idle play of imagination or a primitive provocation.
I carry an obligation towards Art and towards tradition, but at the same time I feel obliged to search for new areas.
He graduated summa cum laude in graphic design under Professor Tomasz Jura, and in painting under Professor Jerzy Duda-Gracz in 1982.
societyforarts.com /kowalski.htm   (224 words)

  
 warhead17 notizie dalla polonia : Italy imc   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Seems that many people still don’t think it is a problem and soon it can be too late, when European mega-state will grow more.
During NATO conference in Warsaw at the end of September about 100 anarchists demonstrated against this event.
Krzyk in Gliwice is celebrating its 4th anniversary, but very soon it will be evicted, although
italy.indymedia.org /print.php?id=92797   (1088 words)

  
 Keyword   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
For the future of high-stakes U.S. diplomacy and of great-power politics, look no further than Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to the U.S. It is Asia that should occupy an outsized place in our strategic thinking, and it is Europe that should be the relative afterthought, not the other way around.
"This is pure provocation and a result of military-political intrigues on the Czechs' part," Defense Ministry spokesman Gen. Vladimir Fyodorov told Interfax on Wednesday.
To avoid further offence to the Muslim community, the mayor of a little Belgian coastal town recently banned a local exhibition from displaying a sculpture of Saddam Hussein, made by the Czech artist David Cerny.
freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=czechrepublic   (5846 words)

  
 NSZZ2
March 19 th “ Bydgoszcz provocation” — special group of Security Service (SB) assaulted representatives of “ Solidarnosc”, including Jan Rulewski, the president of the regional board.
There is a threat of confrontation, especially dangerous due to military manoeuvres with participation of the Soviet army.
May 3 rd NSZZ “ Solidarnosc” organises another demonstrations in Warsaw, Cracow, Toruń, Elbląg, Gliwice, Lublin, Gdańsk, Szczecin and other cities.
www.polandembjak.org /Embassy/NSZZ5.htm   (1600 words)

  
 University of Silesia
You also have a unique chance to visit numerous monuments of industry and technology.
You can visit a variety of attractions from several museums of underground mining, the fire service museum, a historic brewery and a radio station in Gliwice – known from the political provocation shortly before the WW II - to ethnographic park presenting life from centuries ago.
While visiting the underground museum, you can experience a yearning to participate in ancient labour.
english.us.edu.pl /?op=tekst&id_strony=29&WWW_US=89cb2d18858989bfdc4cfb6d5076d6b2   (1270 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The computer lab that evening consisted of a "three ring circus", with Qiang Ma demonstrating his world trade database, Junko Niwa the web pages running on a Sun Unix laptop, and Doug Meade presenting a tutorial in Interdyme 2.0.
A ceremonial dinner and party was held that evening, complete with Polish vodka and roast suckling pig.
Clopper had to excuse himself for quite a long while from this gala affair to grant an interview to a local radio reporter.
www.travelpolandguide.info /Poland74111.aspx   (2316 words)

  
 Totally Spies Picture Archive -> Discussion
A group of German Criminal's (they wearing a uniforms of Polish Army) attack (under command of German Officer) a German RadioStation near city "Gliwice".
This event go down in history as "Gliwice Provocation" (Prowokacja Gliwicka).
In last year, was big affair arround game "Codename Panzers: Phase One" because in German Campaign, First Mission Briefing says only about counter attack (there wasn't any info about Provocation and any info about that German Starts War).
www.tspa.net /index.php?showtopic=6322   (1284 words)

  
 Poland
On 12 October 1998 the provincial governor of Bielsko Biala announced that the Maja construction company would be able to carry on with the construction of a shopping mall that had been stopped in 1996 after Jewish groups protested its proximity to the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
This decision was upheld by an administrative court in Gliwice in January 1999 despite appeals by the Auschwitz Museum management.
On 11 May 1999 Kazimierz Switon, who for over a year had been living in a tent at the gravel pit, began the construction of a wooden chapel in front of the Papal cross without permission from Church officials.
www.axt.org.uk /antisem/archive/archive4/poland/poland.htm   (15226 words)

  
 Bring Back Bruderhof
It is my fondest hope that your arogance becomes humility and service replaces your pompous hogwash which amounts to "Only serious Christians need apply." As I recall, Christ ministered to all those in need, including and especially those on the fringes of belief.
I had come to rely on these things as place of refuge amidst the stress of ministry and personal attempts to be a decent Christ follower.
Yes, I miss the inspiration and provocation but I am willing to bear the cost of their withdrawal and continue my faith walk without as much attachment to noble ideals and instead more eagerly seek the Spirit that is the author of the Kingdom of Heaven.
bringbackbruderhof.com   (17042 words)

  
 The long armistice of 1918-1939
On the following day, there occurred a small incident on the German side of the Polish frontier.
According to Hitler's subsequent speech, Polish soldiers attacked a German radio station at Gleiwitz (now Gliwice).
Actually the attackers were Germans outfitted in Polish uniforms, commanded by an SS officer, and acting on orders from Berlin.
www.the-old-sea-dog.net /d12.html   (12020 words)

  
 Gossamer Threads Inc.: Government
Others believe, with equal passion, that the war was an unjustified provocation of the Muslim world or at least a diversion from the true war against terrorism.
This pilot will be focussed on the land-use and -planning and building permit, and aims at making this rather complicated process more transparent, efficient and easier to understand, hence saving time (and thus also money) for citizens and businesses.
The Polish pilot will be implemented in the Silesia Region in cooperation between the Cities on Internet and City Hall of Gliwice.
www.pressbox.co.uk /cgi-bin/links/page.cgi?g=Government/more8.html&t=av&d=1   (12491 words)

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