I had to read that damned lying book in college

It's taken 47 years, but an official German report concluded that at a maximum 25,000 people died in the firestorm in the Dresden bombing. David Irving, author of The Destruction of Dresden (1963), called the bombing a deliberate war crime and claimed between 150,000 to 200,000 deaths.

The Dresden Historians’ Commission worked five years reviewing records from city archives, cemeteries, official registries and courts and checked them against published reports and witness accounts. They concluded the death toll was up to 25,000.

From David Irving's Wikipedia page:

Irving's reputation as an historian was widely discredited[3] after he brought an unsuccessful libel case against the American historian Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books in 1996. The court found that Irving was an active Holocaust denier, antisemite and racist, who "associates with right-wing extremists who promote neo-Nazism,"[4] and that he had "for his own ideological reasons persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence."

He served a prison sentence in Austria from February to December 2006 for glorifying the German Nazi Party.

A THOUGHT: With the Internet and a collective memory in places like Wikipedia, the Liberal lamestream media no longer has a monopoly on historical record, supressing evidence when it pleased them to do so. It must be worrisome for leftwing academics to know that their students have access to Wikipedia to look up, if they are inclined to do so, those prized sources that fed and fuel the academic's anti-Americanism.