[bamboozled]

From the Wikipedia article supplied:

“Large variations in the claimed death toll have fuelled the controversy. In March 1945, the German government ordered its press to publish a falsified casualty figure of 200,000 for the Dresden raids, and death toll estimates as high as 500,000 have been given.[15][16][17] The city authorities at the time estimated up to 25,000 victims, a figure that subsequent investigations supported, including a 2010 study commissioned by the city council.[18]”

It’s a tragedy none the less but that figure doesn’t seem actuate ?

[ekianjo]

Nobody actually knows the real number of victims since it was not just the population of Dresden but also refugees from all over the place who had taken to live in Dresden. These are not accounted for by the city statistics, so 25 000 people killed is probably on the low end of actual numbers.

You want a different source? https://www.britannica.com/event/bombing-of-Dresden

> The U.S. Eighth Air Force followed the next day with another 400 tons of bombs and carried out yet another raid by 210 bombers on February 15. It is thought that some 25,000–35,000 civilians died in Dresden in the air attacks, though some estimates are as high as 250,000, given the influx of undocumented refugees that had fled to Dresden from the Eastern Front. Most of the victims were women, children, and the elderly.

[contingencies]

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. - Stalin

Regardless of the deaths, I understand the cultural tragedy of the destruction of Dresden is significant as it was an important intellectual center.

I had a friend who passed away recently who was a boy in the bombings and recounted with tears on multiple occasions, as a lifelong opiate addict, how he felt he had personally died at that time. I visited the city a few years ago and found the largely depressing husk of a city still under wishful reconstruction. The nominal activity of its touristic center was at direct odds to the clearly economically depressed suburbs mere moments away.

[kazagistar]

Thanks for citing the statistics.

Just to be clear and provide context, the numbers the original poster linked were overbloated and inaccurate because it's a fictionalized neonazi talking point, like holocaust denial and white genocide in south africa. Some people get drawn into the, uh, wrong sources and start parroting the talking points without really knowing what they are helping to propagate, so the poster here might not be a racial supremacist or whatever, but it's something to keep an eye out for.