The Nazis waged war on all fronts, including the currency front. Using the money of concentration camp prisoners to counterfeit, they launched the largest counterfeiting campaign in history. Charlotte Krüger found out that ... her own grandfather was behind the entire operation. The nestor of th
Ah, who is it, ah who cares about me so? Militia, militia! - Jacek Zwoźniak sang. Police officers, often more interested in searching for capitalist-speculative elements than common criminals, were already the subject of jokes in the Peoples Republic of Poland. And its hardly surprising. On New
This part of Polands post-war history is almost unknown. The very attempt to describe it causes outrage. How is it, non-Nazi camps? And Poles, not Germans, as executioners? Marek Łuszczyna, the author of the book Mała zbrodnia, talks about how difficult it is to reveal the dirty secrets of ones own
The times of the crude PRL were not favorable to the cashiers. Thousands of wiretaps and increased surveillance of citizens made the already difficult task more difficult. After all, bank jump is Mount Everest in the thieving trade ... But there were also daredevils who wanted to get rich quickly an
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
SS men ordering portraits of wives from prisoners. Inmates, arranging artistic mornings. And the great importance of ... shoes. In the descriptions of camp reality, the manifestations of its normality are often the most shocking. But it is not everything. What did you not know about Auschwitz yet?
Both the best-selling novel by Mario Puzo The Godfather and the film based on it, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, gained cult status. They created our ideas about the Italian mafia and its actions. But do modern mafiosi really resemble Vito and Michael Corleone? For Petra Reska, a German stude
A picture worth $ 30 million, five kilos of cocaine and tens of thousands of green bills. And Cosa Nostra - because only its members can tell what happened to the painting considered to be one of the most sought-after works in the world. Caravaggio (1571-1610) is a great painter of the Italian B
May 13, 1981. That day the pope was to die. What made him survive the attack? What was the point of his suffering? And who was behind the bomber? Its high time to find the answers to these questions! Pulled the trigger. The Browning HP pistol responded - it launched a nine-millimeter bullet tha
John VIII was first nailed down by the court and then beaten to death. Alexander VI accidentally ingested poison intended for one of his guests. Jan X was strangled with a pillow. What about the rest of Saint Peters successors? John XII was associated with everything that the Pope should not be
We all know the story of the hooded archer Robin Hood and his merry company dealing with the evil Sheriff of Nottingham. The real story of outlaws, however, has little to do with plundering the rich and handing out to the poor. Instead, its full of theft, bloodshed and rape. The colleagues of th
Prostitutes blood sucked to the last drop. Brutal massacre in the pen of German incest. And a crime in a luxury villa that had no right to happen. All these murders took place. And neither could be explained. 4. Atlas Vampire Today it is the place with the highest density of bars and restauran
A tenement house murdering its own tenants. A gang of heartless killers intoxicating victims with opium, restraining them and throwing them into city wells. And a woman who killed up to ... four hundred people in two decades. Were any of them a serial killer? It is not uncommon for laws to preve
Europe in the 1970s and 1980s was flooded with a wave of Islamic radicalism. Muslim terrorist organizations planted bombs, hijacked planes, murdered politicians ... They were often supported by various local nationalist, leftist and anarchist militias. One of the most famous terrorist organizati
During the trial he stressed that he had no remorse. Not only did he not feel guilty, but his voice was proud of his war accomplishments. Especially one - genocide on a scale unprecedented in history. What crimes did Adolf Eichmann commit? This one of the most famous Nazi war criminals categoric
Arrests, hard labor, deportations to the east. To this day, it is impossible to count all those murdered during the liberation march of the Red Army. Especially since their new graves are still being discovered. The Soviet security services and the Red Army units cooperating with them pursued th
Henryk Troszczyński was in a group of Poles who found traces of the Soviet crimes in the Katyn Forest. He was one of the first to know what fate befell the officers taken prisoner after the USSRs aggression against Poland in 1939. At the beginning of July 1941, the Wehrmacht troops clashed with t
When you are 21, you dont think about the future. Man lives carefree and has the impression that the whole world belongs to him. Henryk Troszczyński remembers this moment of his life differently. It was the summer of 1944, Warsaw was preparing for the uprising, and he was worried about the lack of a
Adolf Hitler used to say that he was one of the best National Socialists. In terms of humanity, however, he was the worst of the worst. A fanatic Nazi and a ruthless careerist. Such was Reinhard Heydrich - the architect of genocide and organizer of the Holocaust. If we were to compile a list of
Jews full, first and second degree hybrids. This is how the dignitaries of the Third Reich ruthlessly classified human existence. The punishment for possessing Jewish blood was to be death. But did these precise calculations allow for exceptions? The meticulous definition of the concept of Jew w
Egyptian women. Depilation and post-depilation were fundamental operations for their beauty The Egyptian women they cared a lot about their beauty and shaved promptly using different methodologies (https://www.pilloledistoria.it/2511/storia-moderna/depilato-dallantico-egitto-900). The papyri
Marriage is one of those ceremonies that have endured through the centuries. Today a testimony to the love between two people, it was for many centuries the instrument in family alliances and a way to climb the ladder of society. Through this article, I invite you to discover the evolution of mediev
He fought for the Polish throne for several dozen years. He left behind the legend of an enlightened, well-educated and benevolent king. As it turns out, behind this facade he hid a swaggering ego, and at the cost of the crown he was ready to even divide the Republic of Poland. Stanisław Leszczy
At the beginning of the 20th century and more specifically in its second decade (1914-1918), the visual and architectural movements of the European avant-garde (futurism, cubism , constructivism, Bauhaus, etc.), rejected both the academicism and the adherence of their predecessors to History, consid