If you consider Nazism a political religion, Blutfahne, or Banner of Blood, was one of its most important relics. But how did it happen that a piece of cloth with a swastika rose to the rank of the greatest sanctity? Initially, it was a simple swastika banner belonging to the 5th company of the
In crime novels set in the Second Polish Republic, real geniuses of the detective art lead the way. In the real story, you would have to look for them with a candle. Incompetence, naivety and simple stupidity - this is the pre-war State Police in a nutshell. One high-profile case tells everythin
Even the bravest pilots could not imagine a flight without a mascot for good luck. So the co-authors of the soaring victories were dolls, cats and devils. Captain Camillo Perini made combat flights in Hannover CLII in 1919, taking off with the observer Lieutenant Karol Friser from the Lewandówka o
The Polish MP caused a diplomatic scandal that almost cost him his life. A few sentences were enough for the powerful Queen Elizabeth to feel sincere hatred for the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. And traces of this conflict can be found even in the most important play by William Shakespeare. 16th