He introduced the concept of autistic psychopathy a few years before Leo Kanner published his famous work on the subject. He called for little patients to be treated with love - and without blinking an eye he sent them to slaughter. What role did Asperger play in the Nazi Child Euthanasia Program?
They turned from ordinary people into beasts. How did the Germans manage to organize and carry out the extermination action in the vast areas of occupied Poland? If we were to consider the history of the Holocaust concisely, briefly and from a statistical point of view, then we can say that by M
In 1940, the Am Spiegelgrund clinic was opened in Vienna. Austrian children went there. The associations with medicine, however, are misleading - behind the brick wall, the only difference between the death of young patients was the diagnosis. It was enough that the word idiot appeared in the diseas
On land, in the air and at sea - in the clash with the Second Polish Republic, the Germans had no chance. Our troops were overwhelmingly successful, and the invaders fled where pepper grows. This - according to the Polish press - was the situation in September 1939. Well, the first casualty of war i
The justification for the Soviet invasion of Poland surprised even Joseph Goebbels. How did Poles learn about aggression? Did the Red Army soldiers fit the propaganda image? The Soviets have entered. I am ordering a general withdrawal to Romania and Hungary by the shortest routes ” On Sunday, S
Who was the first director of the power plant? Why did mainly young people with small children live in Pripyat? And how did the ... pool get there? On the evening of March 6, 1986, when the revived Mikhail Gorbachev acted as the host of a reception at the Kremlin Palace for foreign guests of the
Prussian barbarians murdering crippled children, Turks and Tatars carrying an Islamic storm, brutal pagans from Lithuania - it was against them that Poland defended Europe, becoming the bulwark of Christianity. No other country has been the frontier of civilization for a thousand years. But did our
To survive, people ate human hearts, lungs and livers. Man was an animal - as a victim and a hunter. Inhuman conditions, an island many kilometers away from civilization, hunger, disease and death awaiting everyone. What did the idea of settling the virgin areas of Siberia by the USSR in the 1930s
On December 21, 1908, Miss Marion Gilchrist was murdered. She was a pious, honest, intimidating woman of perfect health and impeccable manners - in short, she was not very popular. The crime was extremely brutal and became the loudest murder of the age. Especially since an innocent man was convicted
He chose to work with Germany to save his family. Hand in hand with the Nazi gendarmes, he put the inhabitants of the ghetto into the wagons that carried them to their deaths. Too late he found out that the invaders promises could not be trusted ... Calek Perechodnik joined the Jewish Order Serv
For the Zionists who dreamed of establishing the state of Israel, the 20th century turned out to be crucial. However, in order to achieve their goal, the Jewish fighters did not mince their measures and did not consider the number of possible victims. Even if their compatriots could be among those k
Only the best of the best went to this elite unit. Conditions? Above average strength, bravery, courage and ... homosexual orientation. The Thebans, fighting side by side with their lovers, were deadly. They even beat the famous Spartans ... Athens and Sparta are different countries and life mod
Real spies had and have at their disposal a whole range of toys that James Bond could only dream of. What did the intelligence agents really use? Some items surprised us completely. And the others were just ... repulsive. A jet backpack, a flying car, a sniper rifle hidden in a camera, glasses w
A fair-haired, blue-eyed muscular man who, together with his companions in animal skins and characteristic helmets, regularly loots settlements on the coasts of England and France, raping and murdering whomever he can - this is the image of a Viking known from movies or novels. But is there any trut
This practice rose to heights of disgustingness. Nazi degenerates set up a gold mine in Auschwitz, although they did not use a single pickaxe for this purpose. Every day, behind the barbed wire of the Auschwitz German death camp, people were stripped of their dignity and… the remnants of the pro
His rule has been looked more graciously only in recent decades. It was argued that perhaps he was not at all a lazy and thoughtless lump of meat and fat as assessed by interwar historians. But does whitewashing this monarch really make sense? It must be admitted that Augustus III, ruling in the
What would happen if Bolesław Krzywousty had not divided Poland between his sons? Or if prince senior Władysław showed more determination and defeated his younger brothers? The Krakow historian has no doubts:the fate of our country and this part of Europe could have taken a completely different cour
A man claiming to be the son of Ivan the Terrible dragged the Commonwealth into an argument with its eastern neighbor. In return for his help in regaining the throne, he offered great riches. But was Dmitri the Samocan really a tsarevich or just a trickster? After all, he rose again three times ...
The king is accused of raping a minor wife, the queen is abusively called a sow exhausted from labor. Illegitimate children, murder of political competitors and secret relationships. What were the biggest scandals of the Jagiellonian era? The wedding of Jadwiga and Jagiełło. Lithuanian rapist an
He was a sham entrepreneur, a bogus diplomat and a financial speculator. Even after the outbreak of the war, he only thought about how to make a fortune. Despite this, the émigré authorities and the Polish underground saw him as a trusted ally. Why was he not recognized as a traitor for so long?
This time, lets take a look at Hestia, one of the 12 gods of Olympus! The eldest daughter of Cronus and Rhea and the sister of Zeus Cronus himself overthrew his father, Uranus, but also swallows the children born with fear of being overthrown by children. Among them, this Hestia was the firs
Roman matron The matron, in Ancient Rome, she was the wife of the pater familias, or the head of the family, the undisputed number one of the clan, the one whose authority all had to obey and submit. This does not mean that the wife did not enjoy a certain influence in the family, but sh
Delicious palaces, private troops and dreams of supreme power - the Polish aristocracy was a real power. She could do more than the king alone. Our magnates fed their horses in marble mangers, and watered the nobles from the neighborhood at tables set with gold. What else could they afford? Acco
These criminals became real celebrities in the times of the Polish Peoples Republic. All of Poland was alive with their actions, publicized by the media. Their extraordinary adventures and spectacular escapes were followed with bated breath. Songs were sung about them, movies were made ... and even