Dresden casualties and an Atom bomb target?

[Klaus Schiffler]

The final report of the Höhere SS and Polizeiführer dated 22 March 1945 gives the following statistics:

13,441 dwellings destroyed;
202,041 dead recovered, mostly women and children.

The report also states that the final total of deceased would amount to around 250,00 since many had been totally incinerated.

Only about 30% of the dead could be identified.

The claim of the East German Communist governtment after the war of 35,000 is a fairy tale. Since Stalin had requested Churchill to bomb Dresden, the communists tried to minimize the atrocity.

Source: Luftwaffe '45 by Manfred Griehl