Vonnegut was very probably wrong about the Dresden numbers. One of the people to popularize a disproportionally high death toll from the firebombing of Dresden

Vonnegut was very probably wrong about the Dresden numbers. One of the people to popularize a disproportionally high death toll from the firebombing of Dresden was David Irving — later discredited and now largely known for his fascist leanings and his denial of the Holocaust — in his first book [1]. The modern estimate, from a report done by the city of Dresden in 2010 [2], is is that around 25.000 people died. He's more right about the Tokyo bombing. Richard Rhodes, in his fantastic "The Making of the Atomic Bomb", cites 100,000 dead and 1 million injured. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II#Falsification_of_evidence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War... [2] http://www.dresden.de/media/pdf/infoblaetter/Historikerkommission_Dresden1945_Abschlussbericht_V1_14a.pdf http://www.dresden.de/media/pdf/infoblaetter/Historikerkommi...