Books, Arts & Manners: The Other Holocaust

Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine, by Robert Conquest (Oxford, 412 pp., $19.95)

Suppose that the July 1944 bomb plot had killed Adolf Hitler, which it surely would have done if Count von Stauffenberg had set his satchel a foot away from that concrete pillar. Hitler’s successors swiftly round up and execute the plotters, and then sue for peace, retaining control of much of Central Europe, with Scandinavia and the Low Countries remaining in National Socialist Germany’s orbit.

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Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine, by Robert Conquest (Oxford, 412 pp., $19.95)

Suppose that the July 1944 bomb plot had killed Adolf Hitler, which it surely would have done if Count von Stauffenberg had set his satchel a foot away from that concrete pillar. Hitler’s successors swiftly round up and execute the plotters, and then sue for peace, retaining control of much of Central Europe, with Scandinavia and the Low Countries remaining in National Socialist Germany’s orbit.