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Old May 23rd, 2008 #8
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Originally Posted by hengest View Post
Here in Blighty, we are reminded on a daily basis about "The Blitz", as if it was a national calamity, but, as I am wont to point out to the teary-eyed ignorants and hypocrites: more civilians were killed during the allied bombing of Hamburg ALONE, than died in this country throughout the ENTIRE war.
And as to Dresden: there was a higher death toll than than Nagasaki and Hiroshima, COMBINED!
Details , details , don't let trivia like that get in the way of feel good propaganda.