The Second World War has not ended yet, when the specter of a new conflict looms over Europe. On July 1, 1945, nearly 4 million Allied soldiers were to attack Poland and free it from Soviet occupation. Apart from the Red Army, the Polish Peoples Army would also stand in their way. The plan for
In 1965, 27-year-old Angus Barbieri came to Maryfield Hospital in Dundee, Scotland. The man had been struggling with serious overweight for a long time, which he hoped would be helped by the doctors. He did not think that this visit would not only change his life, but would make him a legend, writin
The lust for power and the sense of impunity in Nazi Germany created a state program of murdering disabled children and euthanizing sick people, and then opened the way to bestial experiments on concentration camp prisoners. In the book Hitlers Doctors War Bartosz T. Wieliński describes the operatio
They were called contemptuously medicine men, their knowledge was mocked, their morals and competences were undermined. Even those whose skills surpassed their colleagues had no chance of practicing medicine, not being able to obtain the necessary permits or chances to gain the patients trust. What
The promise of eternal life somewhere in the afterlife was not enough. People - from antiquity - have wanted to live here and now. The desire for immortality is perhaps as long as human life on Earth. Already the ancients approached eternal life very practically. Realizing the impossibility of liv
What were the Nazis really like? During the Nuremberg trial, the Allies decided to examine psychiatrically captured Nazi criminals. The Nuremberg trial was to serve a good cause. They wanted to show that the Western world is a place of the rule of law. Anyone, even those accused of the worst crime
For over 20 years, the Body Works exhibition has been breaking records of popularity. It turns out, however, that the idea for the exhibition is nothing new ... What is invisible on a daily basis, shrouded in an aura of mystery and mysticism, and even seemingly impossible - the interiors of our
Can the black death be used as a biological weapon? Yes! This was found out in Kaffa extremely painfully. The falling corpses were only the beginning of misfortunes for the inhabitants of the city. As it turned out soon - not only for them ... Humanity has known the plague for millennia. Scienti
During the reign of Galerius, Christians did not have an easy life. Yet, shortly before his death, the ruler recalled edicts that oppressed Jesus followers. How did it come about? Galerius is not a popular figure in the history of the Empire. Those who have heard of him may have encountered info
According to some historians, the Blitzkrieg was driven as much by tanks and cars as it was by ... amphetamines. German soldiers swallowed pills containing this drug like candy. But could pervitin really help the Third Reich to win the war? In mid-November 1939, a young Wehrmacht soldier wrote a
In his youth, the Angel of Death had little interest in politics. Natural sciences were his passion at school. When he decided to study medicine, nothing foreshadowed his criminal career. How did dreams of healing replace pseudoscientific theories about race improvement? In October 1930, young,
Bishop Fidel García Martínez was to be discredited for denouncing fascism. Rumor has spread throughout Spain that the priest is a regular guest of brothels. The attack on the clergyman left no doubt - the abuser in the cassock was enjoying bodily pleasures in the arms of prostitutes. It was not un
After the May coup in 1926, there was a conviction in Jewish circles that Piłsudski would not let Jews be harmed. Is it right? The first years of the Second Polish Republic disappointed many people. National minorities had the greatest reasons for this. Anti-Semitism, drained from the end of the
What was Piłsudskis attitude towards Jews? The answer to this question comes from a sensational interview with the Polish leader conducted by Israel Cohen in 1918. Article in the Chicago magazine Sentinel, No. 173 of June 6, 1935, p. 8; hedgehog. English. The death of the Polish Dictator Piłsu
Several years had to pass before the uniqueness of this Olympic final was noticed. In 1936 in Berlin, in front of Adolf Hitler, the following were in the competition:a Finnish army soldier, a Polish concentration camp prisoner, an American bombardier who drifted in the Pacific waters for 47 days, a
In the 16th-17th centuries there were many plans for the Polish-Russian union. This meant that the Russian tsar could sit on the Polish throne, or the Russian - the Polish king. The idea of merging the two countries first appeared during the interregnum, after the death of Sigismund Augustus in
The Republic of Poland lost not only the rank of a superpower, but even an independent country. The shameful treaty forced the Polish king to pay the Turkish sultan on a permanent basis. And it would probably have been so, had it not been for the great victory of Hetman Sobieski. The man who was abo
1991. The Soviet Union collapses. Belarus and Kazakhstan are willing to hand over their post-Soviet nuclear arsenal to Russia. But not Ukraine, which is concerned about its security. He tries to negotiate and expects a guarantee. The collapse of the Soviet Union created a significant problem in th
It is 54 years old. Claudius is dead. Nero takes over, but his stepbrother Britan also aspires to the throne. A bloody battle for the title of emperor begins. It started, as always in such situations, from a few deeper ones. Not that brawls in a neighborhood like Subura were unusual, much less the
The lost war with Russia in 1792 and the second partition of Poland shortly after plunged the Commonwealth into chaos. The outbreak of the uprising in defense of independence was only a matter of time. Its beginning turned out to be triumphant:the victory at Racławice filled Poles with hope that the
Heinz Guderian believed that Germany could only afford a short war, because its modest reserves of strategic raw materials would soon be exhausted. That is why he developed the concept of armored forces capable of quick strikes. This is how blitzkrieg was born. Heinz Guderian has always been con
All of Europe admired the hussars in their heyday. At some point, however, their fighting spell began to wear out. How did they become funeral parlors from arousing riders? Hussar banners were not used for other expeditions, but for assistance to some lords entry to the starosty or voivodeship,
He is Orso Mario Corbino and you have probably never heard of him. Or, if youve heard of it, its about a bribery scandal involving Standard Oil in 1924. Orso Corbino was a senator of the Kingdom of Italy during the Fascist regime, elected to parliament for the first time in 1921 and remained in of
Church of the Madonna della Grotta in Ceglie Messapica The following article was written by Pierluigi Papa , curator of the website www.brindisimedievale.blogspot.com. This is an interesting post on the beautiful rock church of the Madonna della Grotta in Ceglie Messapica , one of the most