Irving and the Holocaust

An integral part of the debate over the Dresden casualty figures is the comparisons it can be made to the holocaust. On his website fpp.co.uk he claims that,"Even the "hundred thousand" figure for those reported missing must be an under-estimate. There were over half a million homeless refugees in the streets of Dresden, fleeing the Red Army siege of Breslau to the East. Whole refugee families must have been engulfed by the Dresden holocaust, with nobody surviving to report them as "missing"."- far cry from the 60,000 to 100,000 he postulates in his 1999 edition. This is used to minimalises the holocaust as his website also says,  "They had always played down, even trivialised, the air raid casualty figures caused by the British saturation bombing (even as they hyped the numbers killed in the Jewish tragedy)."