The silence is stunning about what U.S. and British bombers did when they fire bombed Dresden, Germany. Historian Donald Miller writes vividly of the hell unleashed: “People’s shoes melted into the hot asphalt of the streets, and the fire moved so swiftly that many were reduced to atoms before they had time to remove their shoes. The fire melted iron and steel, turned stone into powder, and caused trees to explode from the heat of their own resin. People running from the fire could feel its heat through their backs, burning their lungs.”
Estimates of 35,000 were only a guess for the deaths of the civilian population. This was payback for the months of rocket attacks the Nazis unleashed on London and the British nation. It is a similar payback by the IDF for the 1,200 Israelis butchered by Hamas.
I don't remember the teachers talking about it when I was in high school, but maybe I missed it, or maybe it was in the reading materials.
But overtime, I heard a lot about it. Kurt Vonnegut wrote a popular novel, Slaughterhouse-Five about the Dresden bombing.
It doesn't help that the author of one of the best books on the Dresden bombing in the 1960s, later became a prominent holocaust denier.
And your point is?