“On about February 14th the Americans came over, followed by the R.A.F. their combined labors killed 250,000 people in 24 hours and destroyed all of Dresden—possibly the world’s most beautiful city. But not me.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
Vonnegut was a fiction writer. The actual number killed in the Dresden bombing was a lot closer to 25,000 and probably not over 35,000. Which is still a lot of people.
Fake numbers, WWII Germany, a world war, and why would you use a fake Vonnegut number to attack WWII America to defend this Russian invasion?
On about February 14th the Americans came over, followed by the R.A.F. their combined labors killed 250,000 people in 24 hours and destroyed all of Dresden—possibly the world’s most beautiful city. But not me.”
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My mother, still living, survived Dresden.
The 250,000 number has been discredited as Soviet propaganda. More realistic figures are 25-35,000.
The firebombing of Tokyo on 09-10 March 1945 killed an estimated 100,000.