Over 90% of the city was destroyed and it took until 2004 until the city was complely rebuilt. The bombing is conbtriversial because th ecity had no military targets and had many civillian refugees at the time. It was not precision bombing but deliberate bombing of a whole area. If the bombs weren't bad enough, tornados and fires as hot as 1000C ioccured because of the bombings. Churchill is held responsible for the bombing but tried to distance himself from it after the war.