| 词条 | The Destruction of Dresden |
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| name = The Destruction of Dresden | image = File:The Destruction of Dresden.jpg | caption = Cover of the first edition | author = David Irving | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United Kingdom | language = English | series = | subject = Bombing of Dresden in World War II | publisher = William Kimber & Co. | pub_date = 1963 | english_pub_date = | media_type = Print | pages = | isbn = 0705700305 | oclc = | preceded_by = | followed_by = The Mare's Nest }} The Destruction of Dresden is a 1963 book by David Irving, in which the author describes the February 1945 Allied bombing of Dresden in World War II. The book became an international best-seller during the 1960s debate about the morality of the World War II area bombing of the civilian population of Nazi Germany. The book is no longer considered to be an authoritative or reliable account of the Allied bombing and destruction of Dresden during February 1945.{{efn| 1 = "Not one of [Irving's] books, speeches or articles, not one paragraph, not one sentence in any of them, can be taken on trust as an accurate representation of its historical subject. All of them are completely worthless as history, because Irving cannot be trusted anywhere, in any of them, to give a reliable account of what he is talking or writing about {{harv|Evans|1996d|loc=General Conclusion ¶ 6.21}}.}} OriginsThe book is based on a series of 37 articles about strategic bombing during World War II titled Wie Deutschlands Städte starben (How Germany's Cities Died) which Irving wrote for the German journal Neue Illustrierte. DeathsIn the first edition, Irving estimated that the two RAF raids and the first USAAF raid combined were "estimated authoritatively to have killed more than 135,000 of the population [of Dresden]..."[1] and the "documentation suggests very strongly that the figure was certainly between a minimum of 100,000 and a maximum of 250,000".[2][3] In 1965, General Ira C. Eaker identified the number as 135,000.{{sfn|Irving|1965|p=8}} Irving's first edition figures became widely accepted and were used in many standard reference works. In later editions of the book over the next three decades, he gradually adjusted the figure to:
According to Richard J. Evans, an expert witness for the defence at the 2000 libel trial of Deborah Lipstadt,{{sfn|Evans|2001}} Irving based his estimates of the dead at Dresden on the word of one individual, Hans Voigt, who provided no supporting documentation,{{sfn|Evans|1996a}} used forged documents,{{sfn|Evans|1996c}} and described one witness named Max Funfack as Dresden's Deputy Chief Medical Officer.{{sfn|Evans|1996b}} Funfack had made it clear by letter to Irving on 19 January 1965 that he had not been either the Chief or Deputy Chief Medical Officer in Dresden, that he had no knowledge of any documentation about the number of people who were killed in the bombing, and during the war he had only heard rumours, which varied greatly, over the number of people who were killed in the raids.{{sfn|Evans|1996b}}{{sfn|Guttenplan|2001|p=225}} Influence on literatureKurt Vonnegut (who witnessed the bombing of Dresden from the basement of a slaughterhouse as a prisoner of war) used The Destruction of Dresden as a source for the 1969 novel Slaughterhouse Five where he wrote that he emerged from the slaughterhouse to discover that "135,000 Hansels and Gretels had been baked like gingerbread men".{{sfn|Lipstadt|2007}} Notes{{notelist}}1. ^{{harvnb|Evans|1996}} cites Irving, Corgi, edn. 1966, vii. 2. ^{{harvnb|Evans|1996}} cites Irving, Corgi, edn. 1966, p. 225. 3. ^An authoritative independent investigation commissioned by the city council of Dresden in 2010 reported a maximum of 25,000 victims {{harv|Neutzner|2010|p=68}}. 4. ^{{harvnb|Evans|1996}} cites Irving, Corgi, edn. 1971, p. 7. 5. ^{{harvnb|Evans|1996}} cites Focal Point, ix. 6. ^{{harvnb|Evans|1996}} cites Focal Point, p. 167. References
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