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200,000 German citizens were killed in the bombing of Dresden:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II

Both atomic bombs killed 64,000:

https://www.atomicarchive.com/resources/documents/med/med_chp10.html

Obama wanted to apologize for Hiroshima but Japanese officials told him not to do so.

MSM still gave stories like this at the time:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/hiroshima-atomic-bomb-victims-want-apology-obama-115648493.html


52 posted on 08/07/2022 7:49:53 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

One of my German friend’s mother survived Dresden. She and I both had mothers who lived through catastrophic bombings. That is our connection.


58 posted on 08/07/2022 7:58:46 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: TigerClaws
200,000 German citizens were killed in the bombing of Dresden:

That figure has been reduced dramatically; it's understood to be less than 35k.

61 posted on 08/07/2022 8:09:01 AM PDT by Captain Walker ("Evil people always support each other; that is their chief strength." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
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