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Yes, and that map shows the hits London took. Britain received something like 75,000 tons of German bombs. British and American bombers dropped something a bit short of 2 millions tons on Germany. It was on a whole different scale in Germany.

This book covers is well. https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/201...

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The part that always surprised me about the blitz is only 28k killed and 25k wounded. How is that even possible?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blitz

> Civilian casualties on London throughout the Blitz amounted to 28,556 killed, and 25,578 wounded.

That seems a lot of dead to me, but it is a lot less than later bombing caused and the lack of firestorms is the reason. The allies put a lot of effort into optimising conditions for causing them.

Thats a very good point - it seems the war is still being fought, ideologically - or else there'd be a balancing act and we'd be seeing the tragedy on the German side too.

I don't understand your comment; I can see the tragedy on "The German" side... I think that it's horrible that a nation of normal people got hijacked by a mad gang and then herded, bullied and tricked into an absolute catastrophe. The actual end of Prussia... millions dead.. all major cities flattened.. a sizable percentage of survivors raped.. how can anyone not understand the tragedy of that? Germany was partitioned for fifty years, it's still occupied. It's mind boggling.

I'm just saying that it'd be more interesting to see the entire dataset for the war, not just one side ...

And then came the Vietnam war...

That was somewhat different, just because it was a great power waging war on a small and (comparatively) powerless country, rather than a great power waging war on another great power.

War is hell

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