Original sentence: A 1953 United States Air Force report defended the operation as the justified bombing of a military and industrial target, which they claimed was a major rail transport and communication centre, housing 110 factories and 50,000 workers in support of the German war effort.An estimated 22,700 to 25,000 people were killed, even if both German and Soviet authorities in 1945 claimed that 200 000 had died.Immediate reactions after the attacks and post-war discussion of whether or not the attacks were justified has led to the bombing becoming one of the moral causes célèbres of the war.The bombing of Dresden was an American and British attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, that took place in the final months of the Second World War in the European Theatre
Edited sentence: A 1953 United States Air Force report defended the operation as the justified bombing of a military and industrial target, which was a major rail transport and communication centre, housing 110 factories and 50,000 workers in support of the German war effort.An estimated 22,700 to 25,000 people were killed.Post-war discussion of whether or not the attacks were justified has led to the bombing becoming one of the moral causes célèbres of the war.The bombing of Dresden was an attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, that took place in the final months of the Second World War in the European Theatre