Original sentence: Bodies destroyed in the bombing at the time, or in the funeral details immediately afterwards went unrecorded and amongst them was an unknown and unrecorded number of refugees temporarily resident in the city on the fatal night.Later estimates range from a low of 8,200 to a high of 300,000 and have been the subject of distortion for varied ideological and nationalistic reasons and have been and still are the subject of extreme controversy.The exact number of those killed in the Dresden raids is unknown.The raids continue to be included among the worst examples of civilian suffering caused by strategic bombing, and have become one of the moral causes célèbres of the Second World War.There were no official records of the number of deaths
Edited sentence: As a result, many charged that it was a callous slaughter of civilians comparable to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with some historians arguing that it was a war crime.In the first few decades after the war, some estimates of the number killed were as high as 250,000, in part because of misinformation spread just after the bombing by Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's minister of propaganda.Later assessments lowered the casualty figures by a factor of ten or more, yet the raids continue to be included among the worst examples of civilian suffering caused by strategic bombing, and have become one of the moral causes célèbres of the Second World War