Not so long ago, we all had the opportunity to see what happens when power gets under the skin of millions of Internet users. In the 17th century there was neither ACTA nor the Internet, but there were some really similar situations. Only the methods of protest were much more… vigorous. Okay, le
On July 20, 1944, a group of Wehrmacht officers organized an attack on Adolf Hitler. It almost worked! How did German society react to the attempt to overthrow the dictator who dragged the country into a bloody war? Totally different than you might expect. In mid-1944 it was already clear that
The Germans despised Poles throughout the war. It was only when the Red Army stood at the gates of the General Government that they remembered that these subhumans were also excellent candidates for soldiers. In 1944 they decided to create a Polish army alongside the Wehrmacht. In order to invo
The one who loved three things on K:horses, cognac and, of course, women, and valued the honor of the Polish army more than his own. The first freak of the brightest Second Polish Republic was the hero of many scandals. The biggest one broke out in 1939. Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski was elected pr
In the name of the loftiest divine and human slogans, we urge you fellow countrymen not to humiliate yourselves to the role of jackals - appealed on September 18, 1942, by the editors of the Information Bulletin, the press body of the Home Army. Few listened to her. The inhabitants of the towns and
He is one of those rulers whom history and historians have no mercy on. A pusher of the powerful, a Germans henchman, the most ordinary figurehead with no merit. This is how Władysław Herman, reigning in the years 1079-1102, was remembered in Poland. According to Professor Kazimierz M. Barański - co
He was the king of one of the most important world powers. He had everything:power, influence, position in the world of the cream of Europe. But he decided to give up the crown and marry the woman he was crazy about. No wonder no one wanted to come to his wedding ... When, in the early 1930s, P
Not so long ago, Rzeczpospolita reported that, according to materials published on the Euro 2012 website, Lviv had been under Polish occupation for 600 years. Apparently, such information was sent to the organizers by the Ukrainian side. And the Ukrainians should not be surprised. According to their
Probably most of you are convinced that Jesus was a Jew. Unfortunately, you are seriously mistaken. In fact, Jesus was a purebred Aryan! At least according to the teachings preached by the Nazis ... Theories about Jesus non-Jewish ancestry had their roots long before Adolf Hitler was on the pol
Gossipers have long been interested in the secrets of important people. One woman, however, broke all records in this field. Through an affair with the king, she became the target of countless rumors and the heroine of a gigantic scandal. Anyway ... maybe it wasnt a woman at all? When the Briti
The First Republic could boast a modern and original system of power (democracy pushed to the limit!), unusual local culture (oh, that Sarmatism) and a whole host of great statesmen. It would be an almost perfect country if it were not for a few minor snags. For example, almost non-stop civil wars .
It is no secret that the Germans ruled in the conquered countries with the use of bloody terror. However, in the Reich itself, the apparatus of repression was relatively less harsh and efforts were rather not to murder healthy Aryan citizens. Everything changed with the clearer end of Hitlers state.
Civil war. It is hard to find a better medium for hostile neighbors. It is no wonder then that the Germans were changing their legs at the mere news of the May coup. They closely followed the course of the fights between the government forces and Piłsudski, making their own plans and assumptions for
Francesco Mascambruni was only a small cog in the machinery of the Holy See, but a very ingenious cog. In order to earn some extra money from his modest church salary, he started ... forging papal bulls. On a massive scale and with original signatures! Mascambruni was born in 1609 in the town o
Hitlers apparatus of oppression in occupied Poland could not function efficiently if it were not for informers. Do you think there were only a handful of them? Not at all. Only in the capital of the General Government, the Germans had hundreds of informers at their service The invaders started b
Napoleon Bonaparte, apart from numerous victories on the battlefields, also had many love conquests. He was interested in both well-born ladies and ordinary townswomen. It is worth considering what the French Emperor really thought about women ... If you think he was a romantic type, you are se
The second man after Hitler fell on the British heads like a star from the sky ... literally. Although no one in the UK wanted to negotiate with him, Churchill did his best to extract valuable information from him. Guards and specially selected guests had long talks with the highest-ranking prisoner
On April 29, 1945, the day before his suicide, Hitler suddenly realized that he could easily have won World War II. It was enough ... to combine Nazism with jihad and launch the holy offensive on behalf of the prophet! In a bunker near Berlin, he began to dream a vision of glory, which he was d
The Treaty of Versailles drastically limited the German army. It would seem, therefore, that the Reichswehr command in the first half of the 1920s should live in constant fear of a potential Polish attack. None of these things. The Germans were sure that in the event of a war, they would win the fin
We already wrote in our pages about how at the end of 1944 the Germans wanted to create Polish auxiliary armed forces of up to 175,000 soldiers. It was not the first such attempt in occupied Poland. Earlier, the Nazis wanted to establish ... a highlander Waffen SS Legion. As early as in the fal
In 1937, the Criminological Archives published the results of research carried out in a special prison for repeat offenders in Lubliniec. It was a bet for the worst degenerates with no chance of any improvement. As it turned out, 71% of Lubliniec prisoners were imprisoned for the first time before t
In articles and books about the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, one can read that the Germans established it in mid-1940. This is true, but only half of it. It is rarely mentioned that the camp was in fact built almost a quarter of a century earlier! The last years of the nineteenth century and the fi
Action under the Arsenal, the elimination of Franz Kutschera or finally Action Góral are symbols of the Home Armys activities. Meanwhile, the history of the Secret State is full of surprising facts about which school textbooks are silent. It is high time to recall them. As always, all items in
Demolished Eiffel Tower. Mass executions. Monuments razed to the ground. Hitler ordered his troops to defend Paris to death. In the event of a defeat, the French capital was to be wiped off the face of the earth. However, the Führer did not foresee that the general who was supposed to do it would he