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Steve Blu
Where did this come from?

Steve Blu
In the decades since the war, large variations in the claimed death toll have fuelled the controversy, though the numbers themselves are no longer a major point of contention among historians. In March 1945, the German government ordered its press to publish a falsified casualty figure of 200,000 fo... View More
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Kelly_R_Smith
It may not be a completely moral justification but as Billy Joel said, "We didn't start the fire..." The brutal continent-crushing and race-exterminating Germans made their collective beds, and along with it, the rules of engagement. To flip the morality table regarding "the real war criminals" (and... View More

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Cylee Sparks
I also read that it was the germans that upped the figure. 25,000 is a lot of people but it wasn't 200k and certainly wasn't 500k.