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Maps by Götz Bergander, adapted by Digby Atkinson

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The Devil's Tinderbox: Dresden 1945
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Air Power in the Age of Total War
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*
The Nazi jargon phrase for allegedly racially pure Germans. From now on in the text, quotation marks will no longer be added. This in no way implies acceptance or validation of the term.

*
See Appendix A.

*
For a more detailed discussion of the argument over casualty figures see Appendix B.

*
See Appendix C for details of these tales.

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