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I think that it's important to keep this article alive because of the 20,298 civil casualties, which make Foggia one of the most destroyed cities of World War II, with one third of its population being killed. A recent article by german historians says that Dresda, the most bombed german city of the WWII, had around 19,000 casualties: less than Foggia. Is one of the mayor objectives in southern Italy for Operation Husky not worthy of being taken into consideration? Is this tragedy of over twenty thousand casualties not worthy of being written on an encyclopedia? Your call. -- by the creator of this page.
The figures for the number of deaths, to put it bluntly, is nonsense. The following quotation is my rough translation of the article in the Italian Wikipedia. I suggest tidying it up and importing it to this article. 'From the end of May to mid-September 1943, Foggia and the adjacent areas suffered fourteen air raids: of these, two were minor actions (31 August and 10-11 September) and one in particular (25 August) was the worst suffered by the town. However, there are no precise figures on casualties among the civilian population, which had been caught up in military operations. In the collective memory and, consequently, in some official sources, the number of 20 000 dead has been imposed: that is to say, a third of the inhabitants at that time. This is an estimate not supported by archival sources and certainly exaggerated, given the relative distance between the built-up areas and the airstrips, the primary objectives (even more than the railway station) of the repeated Allied attacks. The only certainty is that the dead were numerous – “a few thousand”. 'In 1954, according to estimates made by the municipality, the summary estimate of about 20 000 dead was confirmed on the occasion of the laying of the first stone of the Ossuary Chapel that was to house the remains of the victims; the project to proceed with an exact count of the bodies present in the mass graves was never completed, partly due to the fact that the work on the Chapel lasted for 13 years]. On the other hand, according to Istat (an official Italian statistical body), in the province of Foggia there were 607 deaths due to war causes and of these only 249 until 8 September.' METRANGOLO1 ( talk) 17:40, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
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I think that it's important to keep this article alive because of the 20,298 civil casualties, which make Foggia one of the most destroyed cities of World War II, with one third of its population being killed. A recent article by german historians says that Dresda, the most bombed german city of the WWII, had around 19,000 casualties: less than Foggia. Is one of the mayor objectives in southern Italy for Operation Husky not worthy of being taken into consideration? Is this tragedy of over twenty thousand casualties not worthy of being written on an encyclopedia? Your call. -- by the creator of this page.
The figures for the number of deaths, to put it bluntly, is nonsense. The following quotation is my rough translation of the article in the Italian Wikipedia. I suggest tidying it up and importing it to this article. 'From the end of May to mid-September 1943, Foggia and the adjacent areas suffered fourteen air raids: of these, two were minor actions (31 August and 10-11 September) and one in particular (25 August) was the worst suffered by the town. However, there are no precise figures on casualties among the civilian population, which had been caught up in military operations. In the collective memory and, consequently, in some official sources, the number of 20 000 dead has been imposed: that is to say, a third of the inhabitants at that time. This is an estimate not supported by archival sources and certainly exaggerated, given the relative distance between the built-up areas and the airstrips, the primary objectives (even more than the railway station) of the repeated Allied attacks. The only certainty is that the dead were numerous – “a few thousand”. 'In 1954, according to estimates made by the municipality, the summary estimate of about 20 000 dead was confirmed on the occasion of the laying of the first stone of the Ossuary Chapel that was to house the remains of the victims; the project to proceed with an exact count of the bodies present in the mass graves was never completed, partly due to the fact that the work on the Chapel lasted for 13 years]. On the other hand, according to Istat (an official Italian statistical body), in the province of Foggia there were 607 deaths due to war causes and of these only 249 until 8 September.' METRANGOLO1 ( talk) 17:40, 30 April 2024 (UTC)