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The Big Three all agreed on Dresden as a target (lemmy.world)

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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It was pushed quite hard by a postwar historian by the name of David Irving, who was later discredited for being... well, a pro-Nazi piece of shit. But at the time Slaughterhouse 5 came out, it could still pass amongst the public as cutting-edge popular history, so Vonnegut being taken in by it is more a reflection of the time.

[–] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Kurt Vonnegut did actually go through Dresden during the war though. Some aspects of the story in Slaughterhouse 5 were his own observations.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

The number of deaths cited are what's in question.