A piece of rail hanging on a pole - it was the camp gong that set the rhythm of the day in Oświęcim. Already at 4.30 a Lagerältester, the elder of the camp, would come and hit it with a club. Everyone he woke up knew from the very first seconds that this day might be his last. Thousands of people
On June 24, 1940 , just two weeks after the start of the war on the Italian side, it was sunk by the corvette H.M.S. Falmouth and the destroyer H.M.S. Kimberley , the Royal Submarine “Luigi Galvani”. The history of the Royal Navy during the Second World War is characterized, more particularly by
Paid subversives? Russians in disguise? Jews? Thanks to the research of Mirosław Szumiła, we finally know who the people who built the communist system in Poland were. Although the post-war history of Poland arouses great interest among researchers and readers, we still know relatively little ab
Vegetable preparations, pre-condoms from sheep intestines, piercing of limbs, clasps for genitals, and finally ear incisions. Already the ancients struggled with the problem of unwanted pregnancy. Were they able to find the most effective contraceptive? Two thousand years ago, Areteus of Cappado