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From: tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum)
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Subject: Re: How bad the attacks on cities were in World War II
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Date: Mon, 16-Jun-86 19:07:32 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 16 19:07:32 1986
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> In article <457@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU> davidra@batcomputer.UUCP (Penguin (Rabson)) writes:
> >I've heard a rumor that Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as bad as they were, made
> >everyone forget about Dresden, where more people died equally awful deaths.
> >
> >Is this true?
> >
> >The moral is that war was at least as bad before Trinity as after.
> 
> No, more people died in Hiroshima than in Dresden.  The most common estimate
> I've heard for Dresden is 40,000 deaths, while for Hiroshima it is 100,000
> deaths.  I don't know what the figures are for Nagasaki.  It is true that
> more people died in Tokyo during the war than in Hiroshima.
> 
> However, what these bombings have made everyone forget about is Leningrad,
> where more people died than in Hiroshima + Nagasaki + Tokyo + Dresden +
> Hamburg + Berlin + London plus many other cities.  Many of us in the US think
> that war is only bad when we or our allies kill people.  In fact, many of us
> outside of the US think this way.  In fact, altogether too many people think
> this way.
> -- 
> Greg
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Well said, Greg, except you forgot about Auschwitz, where more people died
than in Leningrad + Hiroshima + Nagasaki + Dresden + etc. etc. etc.
-- 
Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL  ihnp4!ihlpg!tan