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Bloodlands

10 min read 13 min listen Narrated by Sophie
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What’s it about?

A history of the 14 million people killed by Nazi and Soviet regimes in the lands between Germany and Russia, revealing how their intertwined policies of mass murder created a single, horrifying catastrophe.

You’ll learn

  • How Stalin's famine prefigured Nazi genocide
  • The forgotten holocaust of Soviet POWs
  • Why the Holocaust unfolded in the East
  • How two regimes learned from each other's terror