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The bombing of Hamburg is a shocking event. The scale of it was so immense that it was used as a justification for nuclear attacks on civilians. The argument being ‘What’s the difference? Tens or even hundreds of thousands die in either event’.

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Wasn't Operation Gomorrah a response to the Operation Blitz that was conducted by Germany earlier?

I can see that German Blitz is reported to cause 40.000 civilian deaths, similar to Allied Gomorrah. So if anything would be shocking, it should probably be Blitz, not Gomorrah?

I'm pretty shocked by both, aren't you?

Well, true, if we consider those without context. But context is key. There's attack and there's retaliation. British bombings for me aren't nearly as shocking as aggression of Germans.

The Blitz was an 8 month campaign targeting cities all across Britain. Operation Gomorrah had a comparable death toll within one city over eight days. It sounds like the density of destruction from Gomorrah was a lot greater.

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