LOST HISTORY

2022-04-11 11:05:06 Ans van Dijk before the Special Court in Amsterdam, February 1947.

A Dutch collaborator who betrayed Jews to the Nazis during World War II. She was the only woman in the Netherlands to be sentenced to death for collaborating with the occupiers. Open / Comment

2022-04-10 19:05:01 This weapon is called a man-catcher. It is a metal grip that was originally used to throw armored riders off horses without engaging them in close combat.

It had been used in Europe for several centuries, but lost its effectiveness with the advent of firearms.

Nevertheless, it was used until the end of the 18th century, when it was used to catch fugitive criminals. Open / Comment

2022-04-10 15:05:01 German POWs reading in a barracks at Camp Blanding, Florida, June 1943.

This photo is used on the cover of Hitler's Soldiers in the Sunshine State: German POWs in Florida. A total of 378,000 people captured in Africa, Italy and France were held in camps on U.S. soil. There were 25 camps in Florida where about 10,000 German POWs were held. The main purpose of these camps was to solve the problem of labor shortages in agriculture during wartime.

The book mentions Camp Clewiston, which is called "the worst place in all of America. The prisoners were engaged in harvesting cane in very high temperatures in an area rich in poisonous snakes. Open / Comment

2022-04-10 11:05:01 In the United States, the owner of a chain of shoe stores in 1949 decided to promote his business with his own house and ordered a shoe-box building. Since then it has been quite a visible and visited landmark in Pennsylvania. Open / Comment

2022-04-09 19:02:00 Mussolini's disfigured corpse and the corpse of his wife Clara Petacci, April 28, 1945.

The whole essence of the artificial creation of the cult of personality in one photo: today you are the beloved Duce, the leader of the nation and the messiah, and tomorrow... Open / Comment

2022-04-09 15:02:00 In his youth Churchill served as a cavalryman, so he had the appropriate habits - the Hussar ones - he did not pry, and he did not give offence.

Bessie Braddock, a Labour Party member of the English Parliament, once rebuked the Prime Minister: "Winston, you're drunk!"
He replied, "That's right, I'm drunk and you're ugly! But tomorrow morning I'll sober up, and you'll still be ugly.

The Daily Mail in 2013 conducted a survey that found that Sir Winston's response was, in the opinion of the British, the top 10 wittiest insults in history. Open / Comment

2022-04-09 11:02:00 This prehistoric predator lived in North America at the end of the Pleistocene, about 44,000-10,000 years ago.

The largest specimens could weigh more than 1,400 kg and reach a height of 3.5-4.5 m. The species became extinct towards the end of the glaciation, apparently because the large mammals it hunted disappeared.

Pictured is a model of a giant bear from California's La Brea Ranch Museum. Open / Comment

2022-04-08 19:05:01 The Palace of Soviets was an unrealized project for the construction of a high-rise administrative building in Moscow for sessions of the USSR Supreme Soviet and mass demonstrations.

According to the plan of architect Boris Iofan, the height of the Palace of Soviets together with the 100 meter tall statue of Vladimir Lenin crowning it was 415 m.

The palace was to become the center of the new Soviet Moscow and the tallest building in the world, symbolizing the victory of socialism. Open / Comment

2022-04-08 15:05:01 Women with children who could not work were sent for "sanitation. This is the end of their long journey to Auschwitz-Birkenau. In a few hours everyone will be killed in the gas chamber. But they don't know it yet.

By mid-1944, the extermination operations of the Jews at Auschwitz II (Birkenau) were in the nature of a production process. The four Cyklon B gas chambers and the four crematoria were running almost non-stop. Open / Comment

2022-04-08 11:05:01 Castrum (also Roman castrum; Latin Castrum, plural castra, diminutive castellum) is a common type of Roman military settlement, a military camp during antiquity.

Thanks to castrums the Roman Empire was able to establish itself not only in the coastal Mediterranean, but also to conquer a number of internal regions of Europe (Gaul, Dacia, Meuse, Iberia, Pannonia).

Many modern cities of Southern and Western Europe sprang up on the site of the former castrums. Open / Comment