Berlin is a city built on a gigantic swamp. Over the centuries, this swamp has been drained to expand the city. Despite this, the current Berlin has 6% of its surface covered with water and the citys surface is sand. This soft and easily transformable soil was perfect for the construction of subways
If you asked someone on the street what the Varsovians were doing in August 1944, the answer would probably be:they took part in the uprising. And what were the inhabitants of Kraków doing at the same time? Well, the inhabitants of the city near Wawel volunteered to ... build fortifications for the
Dirty, living in dark burrows, working like slaves. Drinking liters of alcohol, arranging fights, ending with sickles stuck in the heads. Joseph and Frances Gies tell about what the peasant existence really looked like in the book Life in a Medieval Village, which is an award in our competition.
Many women have become enchanted by Nazi ideology. They dreamed of becoming the wives of handsome SS men, and collected the documents necessary to confirm the purity of the race. And they often accompanied their husbands to work in extermination camps ... How excited I am! The heart beats like c