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The Big Three all agreed on Dresden as a target (lemmy.world)
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[–] 25 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Holy shit, the number in Slaughterhouse 5 is from Nazi propaganda and I believed it for like 20 years. Thanks for the correction!

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  • [–] [S] 32 points 1 year ago (2 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.

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