2008-10-03, 18:30
#1
Det nazistiska propagandanumret "Dresden" har ju kryddats med helt fantastiska siffror. "Flera hundratusen" brukar upprepas i tungor av revisionazister (ofta för att skyla över nassarnas övergrepp av mindervärdiga).
Nu verkar vi dock få reda på hur mycket det gällde.
Nu verkar vi dock få reda på hur mycket det gällde.
Citat:
Published: 2 Oct 08 08:54 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/14651/20081002/
Far fewer people than previously thought may have died in the infamous Allied firebombing of Dresden at the close of World War II, according to a new assessment by historians.
Until now, the number of dead from the February 1945 attack on the eastern German city has swung wildly from 35,000 to half a million victims. But a panel of historians commissioned by the city's former mayor in 2004 has just determined it was likely far smaller.
"The results of the commission determine that 18,000 died in Dresden from the air raids," daily Die Weltquoted an official statement on Thursday. "The commission assumes a maximum of 25,000 people lost their lives in the February attacks on Dresden."
The British and American air raids on the city once known as "Florence on the Elbe" are widely considered to have been unnecessary and responsible for the deaths of innocent civilians. The city has rebuilt much of its historic centre and long since moved on, but the bombing continues to stoke controversy.
Neo-Nazis have repeatedly used it for propaganda purposes and members of the far-right NPD party in the Saxon parliament have scandalized the city by referring to it as the "Bombing Holocaust."
http://www.welt.de/kultur...edriger-als-vermutet.html
""Im Ergebnis der Untersuchungen der Kommission sind bislang etwa 18.000 Dresdner Luftkriegstote nachgewiesen worden. Die Kommission geht von maximal 25.000 Menschen aus, die während der Februar-Angriffe in Dresden ums Leben gekommen sind", heißt es in der offiziellen Erklärung. "
"Zu dieser Schätzung kamen die Historiker unter der wissenschaftlichen Leitung von Rolf-Dieter Müller vom Militärgeschichtlichen Forschungsamt Potsdam parallel auf mehreren Wegen: Die Bestattungsunterlagen von 1945 wurden ebenso komplett ausgewertet wie Meldeunterlagen aus der Nachkriegszeit. Zeitzeugeninterviews wurden geführt, Fotos verglichen, Brandgutachten erstellt und großflächige Bodenuntersuchungen durchgeführt."
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/14651/20081002/
Far fewer people than previously thought may have died in the infamous Allied firebombing of Dresden at the close of World War II, according to a new assessment by historians.
Until now, the number of dead from the February 1945 attack on the eastern German city has swung wildly from 35,000 to half a million victims. But a panel of historians commissioned by the city's former mayor in 2004 has just determined it was likely far smaller.
"The results of the commission determine that 18,000 died in Dresden from the air raids," daily Die Weltquoted an official statement on Thursday. "The commission assumes a maximum of 25,000 people lost their lives in the February attacks on Dresden."
The British and American air raids on the city once known as "Florence on the Elbe" are widely considered to have been unnecessary and responsible for the deaths of innocent civilians. The city has rebuilt much of its historic centre and long since moved on, but the bombing continues to stoke controversy.
Neo-Nazis have repeatedly used it for propaganda purposes and members of the far-right NPD party in the Saxon parliament have scandalized the city by referring to it as the "Bombing Holocaust."
http://www.welt.de/kultur...edriger-als-vermutet.html
""Im Ergebnis der Untersuchungen der Kommission sind bislang etwa 18.000 Dresdner Luftkriegstote nachgewiesen worden. Die Kommission geht von maximal 25.000 Menschen aus, die während der Februar-Angriffe in Dresden ums Leben gekommen sind", heißt es in der offiziellen Erklärung. "
"Zu dieser Schätzung kamen die Historiker unter der wissenschaftlichen Leitung von Rolf-Dieter Müller vom Militärgeschichtlichen Forschungsamt Potsdam parallel auf mehreren Wegen: Die Bestattungsunterlagen von 1945 wurden ebenso komplett ausgewertet wie Meldeunterlagen aus der Nachkriegszeit. Zeitzeugeninterviews wurden geführt, Fotos verglichen, Brandgutachten erstellt und großflächige Bodenuntersuchungen durchgeführt."
