sci.energy.hydrogen

On Aug 12, 5:12 am, Gunner Asch wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:53:39 -0700, Hiroshima Facts
>
> wrote:
>
> >> The bombing of Dresden was stupid; the goal was to help the Soviets
> >> enslave more of Europe.
>
> >Actually the firestorm at Dresden (caused by the UK) only killed about
> >25,000 people.
>
> Actually..thats only one of the figures bantied about. On the low end
> and usually by those attempting to minimize the carnage at Dresden.
>
> The more commonly figure accepted for years has been around 150,000

/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II

"Earlier reputable estimates varied from 25,000 to more than 60,000,
but historians now view around 25,000-35,000 as the likely range[26]
[27] with the latest (1994) research by the Dresden historian
Friedrich Reichert pointing toward the lower part of this range.[28]"

"Contemporary official German records give a number of 21,271
registered burials, including 6,865 who were cremated on the Altmarkt.
[30] There were around 25,000 officially buried dead by March 22,
1945, war related or not, according to official German report
Tagesbefehl (Order of the Day) no. 47 ("TB47"). There was no
registration of burials between May and September 1945.[31] War-
related dead found in later years, from October 1945 to September
1957, are given as 1,557; from May 1945 until 1966, 1,858 bodies were
recovered. None was found during the period 1990-1994, even though
there was a lot of construction and excavation during that period. The
number of people registered with the authorities as missing was
35,000; around 10,000 of those were later found to be alive.[27]"

"There have been higher estimates for the number of dead, ranging as
high as 300,000. They are from disputed and unreliable sources, such
as the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda headed by
Joseph Goebbels, Soviet historians, and David Irving, the once popular
but now discredited self-styled 'historian'[32] who retracted his
higher estimates.[33] Both the Columbia Encyclopedia and Encarta
Encyclopedia list the number as "from 35,000 to more than 135,000
dead", the higher figure of which is in line with Irving's incorrect
retracted estimates."