If I use 'revisionist' sources, the air raids are at 500,000 to 600,000 civilian casualties, including about 80,000 children, but may have been less if I look at 'politically correct' sources.
The WW1 blockade is ranging somewhere between 500,000 and 760,000 people killed, but that's more or less guesswork, because people didn't starve right away but rather died from diseases because they were weakened by malnutrition.
hi,
most "conservative" and "pro-allied"-numbers for ww2 air war is between 400-500k killed people, some nazisupporters claim 1 million...
how many people really died is difficulty to say, cause in the last year of the war (from summer 1944 on) a lot sourced had been lost. If you say between 450-600k killed people by the airwar you should be in the save region...
about the blocade, it is even more troublesome... first - exact numbers do not exist. Estimated numbers allways are just that - a guess.
but most informations i have about are between 600k and 1million, so the blocade caused the death of more civilians as the air war...
it was - as mentioned here - a violation of the rules of war, even more as the sub-war of the germans.
if germany had won the war, british admirals had been claimed as baby killers (they would been rightfully named this way, latest with this blocade the Royal Navy lost all honor it had gained in 400 years). But winning a war help a lot, so i suggest you really win your wars
but you really can say that the blocade in ww1 killed more civilians as ww2-airwar