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The casualty numbers from the raid on Dresden alleged by people like David Irving (200-500,000),which itself is sourced from Nazi propaganda, are basically mathematically impossible.
I say impossible (as opposed to unlikely) because less than a month after Dresden, the United States Army Air Force conducted Operation Meetinghouse against Tokyo. It was a raid that was
>conducted against a target that had a dramatically larger population (3.5 million vs 642,000)
>conducted against a target that was FAR more densely populated (Tokyo being one of the most densely populated cities on the planet)
>conducted against a target with housing that was largely built from paper and wooden structure (Dresden by comparison was almost entirely built from stone and concrete buildings)
>destroyed its target far more throughly than Dresden
and it still resulted in *only* around 100,000 dead (making it more lethal than the attacks on Hiroshima or Nagasaki individually, a number that Japanese and American sources mutually agree on).
In short, the raid on Dresden could not have possibly killed half-a-million people
