"::::Taylor does not claim to be ""definitive historical statement on the issue"" of numbers, instead he cites two German historian (Bergander and  Reichert) and gives the range their research returned. It is Evans who give a  definitive  number: ""In 1994 research by the Dresden historian Friedrich Reichert was published, using a previously unused source, which convincingly reduced Bergander's figure of 35,000 to 25,000. This figure can be regarded as close to definitive."" However in the Wikipedia article, a range of numbers by recently publish historians is given, as is dictated by Wikipedia policies.   

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