[defrost]

Mortality and Morbidity Statistics.

Those directly killed and injured and those indirectly killed and injured.

Water and food supplies were disrupted and polluted, infections followed, etc.

As someone else linked and as I stated the scale of each event was very similar.

See also Kurt Vonnegut's accounts of the Dresden firebombing he lived through as a US PoW in Europe some months earlier.

[weinzierl]

Dresdens destruction was so severe that now, 78 years later, reconstruction efforts are still ongoing - despite huge efforts and spending of enormous financial resources over the past decades.

[varjag]

Plenty places in Europe were hit harder than Dresden, but lacked a world renowned author to document first hand account.