Original sentence: Apologists for Harris claim that he was responding to the German policy of total war, declared 1943 in the Berlin speech of Josef Göbbels and that the German use of strategic bombing against Guernica and later in the Blitz pre-dated the Allied use.Dresden, full of refugees from the former German east, was bombed over three days (February 13-15, 1945) resulting in a lethal firestorm which killed an widely disputed number of people.Many critics of Harris believe that the bombing was a war crime, and that Harris was a war criminal who, due to his luck to be part of the winning party was not held accountable at the Nuremberg Trials (Predecessor of the International criminal court ICC ) for his deeds
Edited sentence: Apologists for Harris claim that he was responding to the German policy of total war, declared 1943 in the Berlin Sport Palast speech of Josef Göbbels and that the German use of strategic bombing against Guernica and later in the Blitz pre-dated the Allied use.Dresden, full of refugees from the former German east, was bombed over three days (February 13-15, 1945) resulting in a lethal firestorm which killed an estimated 35,000 to 135,000 people.Many critics of Harris believe that the bombing was a war crime, and that Harris was a war criminal who, due to his luck to be part of the winning party in an acti of "Siegerjustiz" was not held accountable at the Nuremberg war crime court (Predecessor of the International criminal court ICC ) for his deeds.The death toll in Dresden was comparable to those in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki