Hiroshima then and now.('Thy Brother's Blood': Reminiscences of World War II)(Cover Story)

The Christian Century | August 16, 1995| | Copyright

WHEN THE JAPANESE finally surrendered in August 1945 I was stationed in Europe, a second lieutenant in the infantry about to begin a two-year stint as a liaison officer with the Red Army, first in Czechoslovakia and then in Germany. I had just turned 21.

It pains me now to recall that the Allied bombings of cities such as Hamburg, Berlin and Dresden had troubled me not one bit. The targets were invariably described as military and the bombings as precision," but if any of us had stopped to think - and few of us did - we would have known that the civilian casualties were ...

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