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Dresden and the two atomic bombings have always grabbed all the headlines. So much so that until I read Malcolm Gladwell's book about it last year, I had no idea that the most catastrophic bombing of the war actually took place in Tokyo thanks to napalm (effectively a superweapon when deployed on wooden Japanese buildings) and a strong wind. Apparently that night accounted for the highest number of deaths in the shortest span of time in human history.

Indeed, and of course there were truly horrific raids on other German cities too (Hamburg in 43, Pforzheim in 45 around the time of Dresden).

As Harris so memorably said though politicians had cozy thoughts about Dresden, as if it was somehow different to do what they’d repeatedly ordered other men to do before. It wasn’t, and wouldn’t have been for as long as Germany kept fighting in the genocidal war they’d subjected the rest of the world to.
 
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