Germany incendiary raids

According to Stettbacher, the loss of life in Germany was not as heavy as the loss in buildings 500,000 dead, or one per 4.9 tons of bombs dropped, against 3.6 million buildings partially or completely destroyed. The heaviest loss of life in a single raid was in Dresden-100,000 people or 20% of the population It is the conviction of military authorities such as Major General A. H. Waite (Ref 9) that incendiary attacks broke the Japanese will to resist before the advent of the atomic bomb... 

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