100,000 people weren't killed.
The more accurate figure is 24,000.
Refugees were just part of the plan. Destroying factories and transportation arteries were also part of that plan.
Again, you have the privilege of being a descendant of the people who were actually there making the decisions. It is a privilege you wouldn't have if we had lost that war.
Bottom line, it cut the time and the Allied casualties and helped stop Hitler, more quickly, from exterminating the Jews. That is all that matters.
The outcome was not certain. Would you have been here today if one of your ancestors was killed during what would have been a much larger battle had the retreating Germans been able to link up with their reinforcements?
You are looking at WW2, three generations later, from the reference point of your personal experiences. Your world is filled with technological miracles like TV, video game warfare, instant real time communications and precision munitions.
A single F-14 today can carry 60,000 pounds of ordinance and be controlled accurately in real time by Theater Command right up to the impact of the bombs.
Were you aware that each of the B-17s that bombed Dresden had a crew of 10 men and only carried 2000 pounds of bombs?
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