Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/07

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Homicide and photography
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 17:07:25 -0500

At 10:09 AM 12/7/2000 -0800, Stanislaw Stawowy wrote:
>The biggest one-time murder was bombing the Leipizg,
>not even the Hiroshima. There was no need to do it, so
>why?
>Because people wanted blood. 


I presume you mean Dresden;  Leipzig was bombed, but not nearly as severely
as was Dresden.  The proven casualties at Dresden were around 40,000,
despite the efforts of revisionists to pump this up over the years.  (Some
of those wounded were from work details of US POW's, including Kurt
Vonnegut.)  The accepted death-toll for Hiroshima was around 75,000.

And, yes, there was an extremely good military reason to bomb Dresden -- it
was then the major undamaged train junction in Germany.

Marc

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