On 6th August the world will remember the day the atomic bomb was first used, 60 years ago. In 1945 Hiroshima was a thriving part of Japan's war industry. Trams ferried many thousands of troops to and fro. Operating the trams was a team of young bubbly tram girls, who loved their work and who had all their lives to look forward to. But then the bomb was dropped on their city and time stopped for the tram girls. Powerful and unique archive takes us back to that terrible day. Video Rating: 4 / 5
On 6 and 9 August 1945 American B-29 bombers dropped two atomic bombs above the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan which virtually stopped existing then. Those two launches mark the only use of nuclear weapons against men until today. "Little Boy" was dropped by the Enola Gay on 6th of August and detonated 580 Meters above Hiroshima, what caused the death of 90000 to 166000 men and deleted 80% of the city. Tree days later the bomber Bockscar launched "Fat Man" above Nagasaki, after it was impossible at the originally planned Kokura due to bad weather. Beteewn 60000 and 80000 men died in Nagasaki, three quarters of the houses were destroyed in a distance of one Kilometer. The effects to the surrounding area were less, the circumjacent hills choked the detonation. On August 15th 1945 TennÅ Hirohito called out the surrender of Japan by broadcast. The official capitulation was signed on the 2nd of September, whereby Word War Two also ended in Asia. 55 to 60 million men had lost their lifes in the six years before by that war, 13 million others were victims of the holocaust, 6 million of them Jews. Never there was a conflict in history of mankind more disastrous. And I hope that will stay that way... CAUTION! I won't tolerate any racist, discriminatory or in any other form inappropriate comments! This song neither glorifies war, nor National Socialism, but should be considered as a historical work. "No, we don't glorify anything, we just tell stories about things that ...
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