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| Not, that I want to justify the bombing, but it seems, that 170.000 people killed is a "bit" too much. Latest / most common numbers are 25-35.000 with the most pessimistic guess I've found elsewhere on the net is, that the number "might be doubled". But at least 100.000 less than mentioned on this site. |
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When all was said and done, the column of smoke could be seen 50 miles away and stood 15,000 feet high. More than three-fifths of Dresden was destroyed by bombing raids lasting more than 14 hours. This Allied air raid left 24,866 homes destroyed, eleven square miles of prime real estate and irreplaceable cultural treasures devastated, 35,000 recognizable corpses available to be identified, and hundreds of thousands of unrecognizable ones. How many? Nobody knows for sure. Most honest estimates range from 350,000 to 500,000 dead - many of whom were liquefied into a yellied mass that melted into the asphalt of the roads or were left in piles of ashes amid a city almost totally in ashes and ruins. One newspaper account published in a German paper, Eidgenosse, (1-3-86) lists 480,000 dead. That count looks like this: 37,000 babies and toddlers 46,000 school age children 55,000 wounded and sick in the hospitals, including their doctors, nurses and other personnel 12,000 rescue personnel 330,000 dead simply described as "men and women." |
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