Jabłonków Incident

The occupation of Jablunkapasses was a commando raid on the eve of the invasion of Poland and thus before the Second World War in Europe, which took place from 25 to 26 August 1939. The aim was to secure the strategically important Jablunkapass for the planned invasion of the Wehrmacht.

Events

The first plans for the invasion of Poland saw 26 August 1939, as a date. Adolf Hitler took but a short distance from the attack command. Meanwhile, already, the planning of the Wehrmacht. Coming from the north-western Slovakia, the Jablunka pass was once the gateway to the southern flank of the Polish Army. As Hitler withdrew the order to attack, defense commands were already on their way. The fighting organization Jablunka ( KOJ ) under the command of Lieutenant Hans -Albrecht Herzner, an officer of the Abwehr, crossed the border at Čadca. The High Command of the Wehrmacht ( OKW ) took the order to attack Poland on August 25, 1939 at 20:30 clock back. Due to a failure of the radios that did not work in the rugged and forested landscape, the unit could not be more timely information.

The application aims were to take the pass to prevent the blowing up of the railway tunnel under the Jablunka pass and to dismantle all disintegrant. The resulting structure should be passed to the next day MOVED, stationed in Žilina Wehrmacht.

The 30 -strong group, which was led by military trained ethnic Germans broke on of Žilina. With vehicles that returned to Žilina later, they were brought to the border. In the five kilometer walk she climbed the Jablunkapass to the border. From there they marched to Mosty u Jablunkova, an airport situated in Olsagebiet Czech village that was occupied Polish as a result of the Munich Agreement. The unit was dressed in civilian clothes and Polish uniforms, which was a clear violation of the Hague Regulations. Meanwhile feared the Wehrmacht, the cut of the communications squad could start unwanted hostilities, but all attempts to seek unity or otherwise contact failed.

The unit took the border station Mosty one, blew the windows of the station building and blew up the telephone. The Polish defenders of the station were taken by surprise. Unrecognized remained a building under Keller Another Polish communication system that allows the attendant informed the officials.

As the Polish forces nachrückten and the reinforcement failed to materialize, to Herzner decided to return to the Slovakian border. The intelligence officer Erwin Lahousen noted in this regard that the squad fended off an attack by the defenders and tunnel through hit back at command of the 7th Infantry Division in six and a half hours to the border.

Yet on 26 August, a delegation of German officers apologized for that caused by an irresponsible incident.