Bombing of Stalingrad

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Impact 25.6 · Hidden · Confidence 75

• Casualty figures and related estimates in the Destruction of Stalingrad section were removed or softened. The updated text no longer provides prior death toll or wounded counts, nor comparisons to other bombings.

Replace “It is generally estimated that more than 40 000 people mostly civilians lost their lives during the attack with one estimate as high as 70 000 However historian Richard Overy considers this exaggerated It is also estimated that 150 000 were wounded as a result The death toll and destruction from the bombing was comparable to the British bombing of Darmstadt on 11 12 September 1944 when 900 tons of bombs from 226 Avro Lancaster heavy bomber s killed 12 300 German ci.” with “large portions of the suburban buildings were made of easily flammable wood”.

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