Re: Dresden Death Toll

On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:19:22 -0400, Mike Muth
<mike.muth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The Associated Press reports that a special commission has finished
investigating the death toll. The team of experts, which included
university professors, military historians and archivists worked for
four years. After searching through 2,600 linear feet of files in the
Dresden state archives and interviewing "dozens of witnesses," the
team concluded that the bombing killed at least 18,000 and definitely
no more than 25,000 people....

Historian Frederick Taylor writes about this for the Spiegel at:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,581992,00.html.

Some incidental information:

In Taylor's book _Dresden - Tuesday February 13, 1945_, Appendix B,
"Counting the Dead," he made a comprehensive summary of casualty
figures from many sources, and concluded: "The fairest estimate seems,
therefore, to lie between twenty-five thousand and forty thousand."

Taylor adds, "None of this is to minimize the appalling reality of
such a vast number of dead, so horribly snatched from this life within
the space of a few hours, or to forget that most of them were women,
children, and the elderly. Wild guesstimates - especially those
exploited for political gain - neither dignify nor do justice to what
must count, by any standards, as one of the most terrible single
actions of the Second World War."

.

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