As of September 1, 1939, not all holidays were suddenly canceled, and Christmas did not disappear from the calendar. When December 24 approached, Poles looked for the first star and put hay under the tablecloth. But everything else has changed. The Polish people are not happy about the holidays
The Middle Ages are commonly associated with a stench. Faeces poured out on the streets, a mass reluctance to bath and a life at odds with hygiene certainly did not favor the noses of the people of that time. However, the situation was not as dramatic as we imagine it to be. After all, human enduran
- As for morality, I do not think that there is more freedom in Sodom and Gomorrah than in Krakow. Wherever you look, you will see an abundance of fornication. Wherever you go, a whole bunch of debauchees will follow you - wrote the Hungarian traveler Marton Csombor, who in 1618 visited the town of
Exhausting nighttime retreats. Constant lap threat and German armor clusters appearing at the least expected moment. This is what September 1939 looked like for many Polish soldiers. Could it have been prevented? Preparing for the upcoming German invasion, the Polish command, headed by Marshal E