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  • Strategic bombing did "dehouse" 7.5 million Germans, but it hardly mattered, for the target cities had a surplus of housing (because most young men were away the army, most civilians had evacuated to the countryside, and all Jews sent to death camps and their apartments seized.)

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

  • It is a pattern designed to dehouse, deculturalize, destabillize, and destroy a country and its people.

    Betweeen Iraq and a Hard Place 2009

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