The Heretics' Hour: Hitler and the Slavs, 4

Carolyn Yeager continues with her study of Poland and how it became the troublesome country that Hitler had to subdue.

• What modern demographics tell us about Polish patriotism;
• A closer look at the early history with its lack of actual records;
• The so-called Polish monarchs from 900 to 1300, and the legendary ones from the 6th to 9th centuries;
• The rule of Jogaila (Polish-Jagiello), of the Lithuanian Gediminid dynasty and the tale of Jadwiga (Hedwig);
• Wars between Jogaila and the Teutonic Knights - how Jogaila snatched defeat out of victory;
• The paucity of world-class Polish cultural figures and artists;
• The causes of the ferocious Ukrainian-Polish mutual ethnic cleansing in 1943.