Popular culture instilled in us a very specific image of weddings in the Middle Ages. The husband is well over forty, the wife is only after her twelfth or thirteenth birthday. She is still playing with her favorite doll and has just dropped the scrap of her mothers dress from her hands. Just like J
The Palace of Soviets in Moscow was to be the tallest building in the world and the expression of the brightest dream of mankind - the dream of communism. The greatest architects of the world at that time ... and a Jew from Warsaw entered the competition for its design. How did he do? What does it h
Service in the Roman legion tempted with steady wages and decent retirement. Often, however, it also meant a quarter of a century of forced celibacy into a military camp in a deep province. How to deal with boredom, when military expeditions, rape and robbery are rare attractions? During the imp
For centuries, the mesmerizing scent of blood drew crowds to the hundreds of amphitheaters scattered throughout the Roman Empire. The audiences desires, met with difficulty, led to an escalation of the perversion and cruelty of the Games. What methods did the organizer have to use to attract viewers
With each subsequent day of the Warsaw Uprising, it was harder and harder to find food in the capital, and hunger was staring into the eyes of many people. Those who wanted to survive had to overcome their resistance and eat even recent pets. The commander of the Home Army himself was also convinced
The first film camera, a bulletproof vest, and even a ticket validator ... Inventions that influenced both great history and the daily life of millions. Who do we owe them to? Poles of course! Some of them achieved international fame and money, others died poor and lonely. In the book Historia
The Germans learned not to tip Russian taxi drivers, and the souvenir photo was almost spoiled by empty glasses. After all, Stalin could not miss the opportunity to get Ribbentrop drunk. How was the criminal agreement sealed soon with Polish blood? Did drunken diplomats sign them? In the afterno
Five years of brutal German oppression did not break the Polish fortitude. The brave women saved the Poles from hunger and desperation. Forgotten heroines of the occupation, fighting daily in kitchens, on black market markets and smuggling routes. Hans Frank, a Nazi apparatchik appointed by Hitl
The hot summer of 1939 was not a time of carefree idyll for everyone. Many Polish families spent the last months of freedom contemplating the war. But was it possible to prepare for the Nazi invasion and the many years of occupation at all? The New Years Eve of 1938 was celebrated by the Wardell
In the face of true hunger, nothing is inedible. Millions of inhabitants of occupied Poland found out about it. Check what our grandparents had to eat. The wartime realities forced Poles to look for unconventional solutions and fill their bellies with what was at their fingertips. We present to
Gangsters use it to buy weapons, drugs, works of art, and even human organs. But it wasnt like that before. Before WWII, the black market ... did not exist at all. Today we are talking about the black market without much thought, but the name was by no means obvious to the inhabitants of occupie
There were no strong points for the Polish smuggler. Our grandparents smuggled in creatively, boldly and with a hint of madness. They always had a new way at hand and they knew perfectly well what to do to lead the Germans out of the way. Find out what their patent for success was. - Is it true
Texas. Today it brings to mind crude oil, space flights and cowboys in hats. And yet it should also be associated with Silesians! Forgotten conquerors of America, led by a very peculiar priest ... Poles appeared in Texas at the beginning of the 19th century. In 1830, sources mention what seems t
Bread with the consistency of concrete. Pseudo-chocolate beetroot cut with a knife. And one candy a year. Discover the assortment of shops operating at the mercy of the Nazis. In Krakow, the Germans launched a card system on November 13, 1939. In Warsaw - only on December 15. Food rationing was
They could survive in all conditions. They were feeding on what others did not even want to touch. They saved the lives of thousands of Polish children, but today nobody remembers their hard work under the occupation. Its high time to change that. During the war, meat was a scarce commodity, but
An exemplary landowner, organizer of social and cultural life. A man who introduced unprecedented farming methods in Kresy. Who is this? Of course Witold Pilecki. We present the unknown face of the captain. The Sukurcze estate belonging to the Pilecki family was located about 100 kilometers sout
Stove broke, fridge wont start and family budget is crackling at the seams? Dont worry, we have a few of our grandmothers methods for you, which will be perfect on such a doomsday. Everything thoroughly tested for German. During the occupation, every housewife had to work out methods of rational b
In a camouflaged, forest hideout, it is difficult to find delicacies similar to a five-star hotel. And with an empty belly - it is even more difficult to fight the invader effectively. Fortunately, our boys knew very well how to remedy this situation. The partisans of the Home Army marched for h
He was a German criminal, he conducted cruel experiments on Polish women in a concentration camp. A Polish court sentenced him to death in absentia. The Americans were not going to let a hair fall off his head though. If you value mass murder but also value your own skin, become a scientist, so
Khazars. A nomadic Turkish people who in the darkest centuries of the Middle Ages created a powerful steppe empire in the east of Europe. It arouses great emotions, but not because of the Khazars commercial talents, their ruthlessness and militancy. Khazaria has gone down in history because its rule
World War I ended with the Peace of Versailles, with which no one was satisfied. Who and on what basis established the borders of states in the new reality? In July 1919, representatives of both the victorious and losing countries of the First World War gathered in Paris. A peace conference was or
The celebration of the 1936 Olympics was agreed by the International Olympic Committee in 1931. These games would mean the return of Germany to the international scene. This would be the second time that Berlin was chosen as the venue for the Olympic Games. In 1916 the German capital was going to ho
Napoleon in Waterloo. Having your hand portrayed under your waistcoat was a fashion of the time Several times I have wondered why Napoleon Bonaparte he had often been portrayed with his hand under his waistcoat, exactly at stomach height, so I did a little research on it. Some time ago, s
Japan lagged far behind other countries in terms of cryptography at the beginning of the interwar period. Its land army in particular was extremely lagging behind in this area. The situation, uninteresting for the Japanese, was only changed in the 1920s thanks to the help of our cryptologists, who s