Iranian channel reminds the world of the Dresden massacre . I wonder why America keeps wanting to overthrow Iran
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Couple hundred thousand? That's a lot, where are you getting that from?
History books? If you've read something else, you're reading propaganda.
Which history books? Provide references if you can.
he doesn't know what he's talking about. the casualty figures for Dresden are well documented. We know for a fact that the dead were somewhere between 22,000 and 25,000 for the Dresden raids, based on German statistics at the time.
The US did kill hundreds of thousands in bombing Japan if you add together all the firebombing and nukes.
I expected as much. That explains why he can't name any 'history books' that make this claim. I've noticed that leftists who tell others to 'read a book' can never name any books that they have read.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II
I don't consider Wikipedia a trustworthy source, but I have to agree that 200,000 and 500,000 is too high. The highest I've heard is in the low 100k.
The actual German authorities said 22-25k. Goebbels lied and added a zero, because that was his job as propaganda minister.
It's obvious to anyone who knows about strategic bombing of cities to see that even the 22-25k figure was high, and it really isn't conceivable for it to be higher under the circumstances. The firebombing of Tokyo, for example, was far, far more destructive, on the same level as an atomic bomb (it killed more people than the actual nukes) and yet it only killed about 100k.