Let me quote you directly then: "You know, when we talk about something on this board, you always try to claim the moral high ground. And you always fail miserably because in our latest arguments you are stuck with defending weird and hopelessly biased positions. "all Germans were nazis", "no one died in Dresden" etc etc.
I never said "all Germans were Nazis" I never said "No one died in Dresden"
You continue to harp on the "exact number will never be known".
Please try to understand that there is a huge difference between an estimate and a guess.
One can estimate the number of beans in a jar to a fairly high level of accuracy by figuring the approximate space each bean occupies, and dividing the volume of the jar by this number. It is still an estimate, you will never know the exact number unless the beans are counted. It is NOT a guess! The estimates of civilian deaths in Dresden are not "numbers pulled out of the air". Comparisons were made based both on tonnage and on casualties incurred as a percentage of the population. Comparisons were made to other fire bombed cities including Hamburg.
This was interesting: On 14 February, following the RAF area bombing of the city, Heinrich Himmler, Chief of the German SS, sent this message to the head of the SS in Dresden: “The attacks were obviously severe, yet every first air raid gives the impression that the town has been completely destroyed.”
