While this might seem like the beginning of a peasant revolution, it was a personal interest. The eighteenth-century peasantry was no less ruthless than the Polish nobility. There was only one punishment for humiliation:death The bestial murder of Ignacy Wyleżyński, the owner of the Niewirków es
They murdered priests, raped nuns, destroyed churches. But not only. It is said that they impaled innocent women and even infants. Brutal and primitive spared no one. But does this black legend correspond to historical truth? The German chronicler Peter of Dusburg, who lived at the turn of the 1
The Teutonic Order was one of the three greatest Christian orders of knights. It was created during the crusades in the 11th and 12th centuries. From the lands conquered as a result of Christianization he created his own state. The origins of the order were modest. Here, during the siege of Akka
When the poison failed, they ruthlessly fired several shots at him. The last one straight in the face. They threw the body off the bridge. Who managed to eliminate the man who was shaking tsarist Russia? Were spies of an enemy power behind the plot? The name of Rasputin was translated differently.
The Final Solution of the Jewish Question had a clear economic dimension for the Nazis from the outset. Before the Holocaust, it was planned to fully use the potential of the exterminated nation. But free slave labor was only one way to get richer ruthlessly in the Holocaust. The process of the
Burning, pulling hair and nails, crushing genitals and fingers, wounds inflicted on everything that can be handled. Although it sounds like scenes from a horror movie, this is how the realities of the former Home Army lived in post-war Poland Peoples authorities called them bandits and gave them
How was it possible to survive the extermination camp? Survivors often indicated the appropriate character traits of the prisoner, his health and physical fitness. Fate could also be determined by the whim of fortune. Happiness, however, could be helped - in the hell behind the barbed wire, human li
Bestial experiments in the name of science. Torture forced by the vision of progress. But also - inhuman trials carried out out of sheer cruelty. The kind where the victims werent even considered human. The unfortunates were merely logs. Japans expansion in Asia began with Manchuria. It was ther
Corpses abandoned in the wasteland or in city side streets. Mutilated, exposed, used. Such views had to be faced by the PRL militiamen. How to catch a serial killer if officially the authorities deny that there is such a prowl? Get to know the stories of four Polish degenerates and the pursuit of mo
When he lost his eye, he only thought about joining here for another war. When his hand was amputated, he found that the case had made no more impression on him than a tooth extraction. He was shot in the head, he was a hair cut from his leg amputated, and he survived a series of plane crashes. With
In times without television, internet and tabloids, chatter had to look for cheap entertainment next to ... the city scaffold. The execution of the criminal was fun for commoners than the newest Turkish soap opera. And only the end of the show was far too easy to predict. Public executions were
Murderers of their own wives and children, sadists who enjoy torture, cruel rulers exterminating their subjects. This is how you can describe the behavior of many rulers of ancient Russia. We present the five worst of the worst. 5. Catherine II - ambitious and bloodthirsty She is considered an
A pile of snails sold to a picked-up canteen manager. A corpse tossed into a mass murderers bed. Laughter. But only laughter through tears. In the early 1970s, doctors Zenon Jagoda, Stanisław Kłodziński and Jan Masłowski, who studied trauma in concentration camp victims, sent out a questionnaire
They dreamed that the world would lie at their feet. And they did not stop at nothing to achieve the intended goal. If they were alive today, they would be accused of genocide like nothing. Who exactly are we talking about? Lets be honest:killing relatives was standard in this era. It was done b
In their youth they lived like kings. They had fleets of luxury cars and their biggest stars performed at their private concerts. But the happy childhood of the sons and daughters of the dictators lasted only as long as the power of their fathers. And it ended just as tragically. Mohammed Reza P
Lets not be deceived. During World War II, souvenirs made of human bones and skin, and even eyes or ears, were collected not only by the Nazis and their allies. The Allies, returning from the front, also brought home terrible trophies. And the knife made of the bones of a Japanese soldier had the pr
Zoophilia, mass murder in the name of science, disgusting trophies. Here are 10 stories that make every normal person goofy. All cases shown in the list come from articles published in Curiosities of history. This time we chose texts that are better not to read while eating. And which may keep yo
The former capital is not only flashing in salons and crimes in white gloves. Real crimes were born out of poverty, in neighborhoods that were feared even during the day. Even the children raised by fathers-robbers and mothers-prostitutes could not be trusted. In the early 1930s, an investigativ
With a light hand, they pass death sentences on inconvenient people. Execution is a punishment for disobedience, treason and disloyalty. Or… inappropriate tone of conversation. Single bosses have dozens of victims on their conscience. Can we count them all if they themselves lost count? Murder i
The name of the Turkish Sultan Mehmed II, the conqueror of Constantinople, made all the rulers of fifteenth-century Europe tremble. All but one. Vlad III, called Dracula, ruled over Wallachia, covering part of todays Romania, from 1448. The ruler was brought up at the Sultans court, to which he wa
On Tuesday, September 26, 1989, at 7:58 in the morning, three armed men shot with two .45 pistols and mortally wounded Pavlos Bakoyannis, member of parliament for Evrytania of the ND and son-in-law of Konstantinos Mitsotakis, at the entrance to his office on Omirou Street in Kolonaki. The MP was tr
The stopping of the German armored raids deep in the territory of the USSR in 1941 and 1942 was the most important thing for the Red Army. The Soviets did not keep up with the minefields, because the Germans were usually faster. In Moscow, therefore, it was decided to use movable mines. The ... anti
Veerangana Rampyari Gurjar As soon as we take the name of Timur, the face of a ruthless and terrible devil comes in front of us who used to make a mountain of heads of lakhs of Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and celebrate bloody celebrations by dancing around it. It is said that Timur Langra had committe
The Jews hiding in occupied Warsaw trembled with fear not only of the German services, but also of the Polish officers. The historian Jan Grabowski sheds light on the role played by the Polish Criminal Police in the hunt for Jews. A service largely composed of pre-war crime hunters. In the Secon