00:00In 1939, the Gliwitz incident became Hitler's pretext to invade Poland.
00:04German operatives, disguised as Polish soldiers,
00:07attacked a radio station in Gliwitz, Germany, now Gliwitz, Poland.
00:11The staged attack, orchestrated by Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich,
00:15broadcast anti-German rhetoric in Polish.
00:18It justified Operation Fall Weiss, the invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939,
00:23marking the beginning of World War II.
00:25The Reichstag fire in 1933 was pivotal for the Nazi rise to power.
00:30A Dutch communist, Marinus van der Luba,
00:33was blamed for setting the German parliament ablaze.
00:35However, many historians suspect Nazi orchestration, particularly by Hermann Göring.
00:41This event led to the Reichstag fire decree,
00:44suspending civil liberties and enabling Hitler to arrest political opponents,
00:48crush dissent, and consolidate dictatorial powers in Germany.
00:51The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 sparked World War I.
00:57Serbian nationalists, including Gavrilo Princip,
01:01killed the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne in Sarajevo.
01:04The extent of Serbia's involvement remains debated,
01:07but Austria-Hungary used it as a pretext for war.
01:10This event escalated into a global conflict,
01:13drawing in Germany, Russia, France, and Britain.
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