Today is April Fool's Day, but we are not going to trick you. On the contrary. Check out ten stories that, at first glance, are hard to believe, but really happened.
Below are the TOP10 unbelievable stories. When you read them, you will say to yourself that it is impossible, but everything is supported by facts. Do you know stories that are hard to believe? If so, please share them in the comments. Perhaps we will devote a separate article to them. Anyway, why don't you write it yourself?
It is hard to believe, but…
| | 1. | The concentration camp in Oświęcim was built ... in 1917. The barracks complex near the city was built by the Austro-Hungarian authorities. It was originally a camp for expats and seasonal workers ( read more on this ). |
 | 2. | In the Second Polish Republic, you could go to prison for 3 years for insulting Adolf Hitler The victim of this recipe was in 1935 a Warsaw merchant, Naum Halbersztadt ( read more about this ). |
 | 3. | Józef Piłsudski as a 19-year-old paralyzed the tsarist administration . He did it while in exile in Siberia. Two rubles were enough for him to hire dozens of Russian officials for many months ( read more about this ). |
 | 4. | From the Middle Ages to the 18th century, death sentences were carried out on suicides in Europe. Their corpses were put on the gallows, burned, and even dumped in barrels into rivers ( read more on this ). |
 | 5. | One German tank was able to demolish an entire British Panzer Regiment . Such a feat was accomplished in 1944 by Michael Wittmann. Within 20 minutes, he destroyed 21 enemy machines ( read more about this ). |
 | 6. | Several hundred Poles survived Katyn. 21,000 Polish soldiers, officers and policemen died at the hands of the NKVD officers. 400 survived. To this day, it is not clear why they were allowed to survive ( read more on this ) . |
 | 7. | Mussolini won the war with Abyssinia thanks to financial swindles . In the African state, Maria Theresa's silver thalers were used. Duce borrowed antique stamps from the museum in Vienna for their minting. This was enough to trigger an avalanche inflation ( read more on this ). |
 | 8. | A Pole was probably ruling in medieval Spain . A certain Mujahid was a Slavic slave. It is very possible that he came from the country of Mieszko I. Around 1015 he took over the Balearic and part of Valencia ( read more about this ). |
 | 9. | The famous revolt on the battleship Potemkin broke out because of rotten meat . Exactly. Behind one of the symbols of the revolution of 1905 there were no big ideas, only opposition to poor feeding ( read more on this ). |
 | 10. | Poland in the 20th century declared war on only one country . Interestingly, this act was not accepted by the other party ( read more about this ) . |
