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> No, there aren't. That's exactly why Dresden stands out. I don't think it should be treated as a "most destroyed city" contest, but you should really researc

• jacquesm 9y ago
  Those cities are larger. But the reason Dresden is used as an example in these conversations is not because such a huge number of people died (< 50K iirc) but because of the whole town very little was left standing. Those other cities are much larger, and even if in total more was destroyed also much more was left standing. Dresden was pretty much gone.
  • kgabis 9y ago
    From [1]: "In total there were 222,000 apartments in the city. The bombing affected more than 80 percent of them with 75,000 of them being totally destroyed, 11,000 severely damaged, 7,000 damaged, and 81,000 slightly damaged." From [2]: "By January 1945, between 85% and 90% of the buildings had been completely destroyed; this includes up to 10% as a result of the September 1939 campaign and following combat, up to 15% during the earlier Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 25% during the Uprising, and 40% due to systematic German demolition of city after the uprising" It's not me underestimating the scale of destruction of Dresden, but rather you underestimating the scale of destruction in other cities. [1] http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Bombing_of_Dresden... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_destruction_of_Warsaw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_destruction_of_Warsaw