Interesting how the number of dead was so inflated. The smaller figures seem more likely. Even in the account I read, it sounded like a lot of people were fleeing the ruins: i.e.: that there were many survivors. I didn’t know about the Hamburg bombing at all. It sounds horrific, but then so is what the Germans did to England. Fight fire w fire. Even though I’m half German, it’s hard to feel sorry for them. They enthusiastically backed Hitler, for the most part, anyway. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
‘’reap the whirlwind’’ Indeed they did.