Fact-check: “In World War II more civilians were killed in Manilla than in Warsaw.”
Verdict: False (82% confidence)
The documented record contradicts this claim. Warsaw's 1944 Uprising alone killed an estimated 150,000–200,000 Polish civilians, and that figure does not include the ~300,000+ killed in the Warsaw Ghetto or the ~20,000 killed in the 1939 siege. Manila's civilian death toll is consistently estimated at around 100,000 — a figure that falls at or below the floor of Warsaw's 1944 Uprising count alone. Contemporary historians and official sources consistently rank Warsaw's civilian losses above Mani…
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