Consider yourself lucky if you are reading this, you most likely not to have lived in a society with extreme judgements, sentences, and punishments. Back in the good old days if you did something wrong, for example stole a goat, chicken, Adultery, you were pretty much assured being handed a death sentence. In those days there was no hanging around on Death Row, contemplating the errors of your ways whilst waiting for some form of humane, painless death. Executions in the ancient history seems to be so barbaric and devices used were built with careful engineering to push the guilty to feel extreme and prolonged pain before death. The forms of execution listed below really are so barbaric that you might question your faith in human nature. Blowing from the gun. With the invention of the cannon came this wonderfully imaginative way of executing enemy combatants. The basic method was to tie the unfortunate victim to the barrel of a cannon and fire it. Horrific as this sounds I imagine it w...
German Defeat at Stalingrad One of the most significant turns of the World War II was the defeating of Germany at the Battle of Stalingrad. It dispelled the myth according to which the German army was indestructible. However, during the battle itself, and, in fact, even in the post-defeat period, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi leadership made their best attempts to conceal the truth among German people. German Defeat at Stalingrad The defeat was not only a military fiasco. Nazi Germany also had a huge propaganda issue. The Reality of the Defeat The war started in August 1942 with the Germans assaulting the Soviet city of Stalingrad. It was a significant city and was named after the leader of the Soviet and was called Joseph Stalin. Initially German forces appeared to be at the verge of victory. Soviet soldiers were not ready to surrender the city. The fight had developed into a brutal close fight block by block, house by house. The Soviets took a tremendous counter attack in November 1942 k...