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Holy shit, the number in Slaughterhouse 5 is from Nazi propaganda and I believed it for like 20 years. Thanks for the correction!
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.
Kurt Vonnegut did actually go through Dresden during the war though. Some aspects of the story in Slaughterhouse 5 were his own observations.
The number of deaths cited are what's in question.
Also just read the Wikipedia and the strength of each side in the conflict:
Nazi Germany:
UK&US:
Bomber Harris was not fucking around.
well... so it goes
Same, and I just finished the book for the 5th time last week!