It's recorded that 70,000 to 135,000 people died in the Hiroshima bombing. RIP to all those souls. A nuclear bomb is Hell on Earth. It is a horror. May it never occur again.
We Americans always end the WW2 unit in school by saying “then we bombed Japan twice with nukes and won” and then completely move on, like we didn’t commit an atrocity. There is no victory in war.
It ended a deadly war that would've killed even more if it hadn't been done. They also had to go fight hitler and couldn't do that without ending the first. A lot of lives were saved because of the bombs. It's their crazy leader at the time who is to blame.
I mean they did rape women from other asian countries and massacred them even Bayoneting their babies without mercy and even had the GALL to record them doing it
Tbh yes it's horrible but let's not act like the gov back then was innocent. (i doubt you are but ive seen weebs say that) Edit: cant wait till the og post has 500 comments, i wont be spammed by the same 300 comments bruv night lol i said good things on both sides, yet you still complaining. if i said thzy deserved it i would be bashed, if i said they didnt i would be bashed, i said both, im being bashed, cant win on ytb. hope u guys know that what you said has been said in the przvious 400 comments ;)
the “I’m sorry, I cannot save you” made me feel sad, just to think of seeing somebody you know or important to you in a situation on which you can’t do anything but move on is just depressing, may all the people that died on that event Rest In Peace
yeaa fr.. like what if ur a mother/father that has dedicated their lives on their children? Or what if u promised friend/sibling that you will be togther forever? Only for them to die and you will survive and live in sadness..
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I’m a sansei generation Japanese American, my Bachan was 13 when the bomb fell in Hiroshima. She survived because a bookcase fell on top of her, and once she managed to get herself out from underneath, she had to walk the streets past melted bodies to seek help. I never asked her what that was like. It was never, ever my place to know. Miraculously, she was the only surviving member of her family who didn’t get horrible radiation sickness, or cancer from the fallout. She was flown back to Japan once a year for testing, up until she got too old to do it anymore and lost herself to dementia. I’ve started learning Japanese to feel closer to her, since she’s passed on. Looking at how small and sweet she was, it was easy to forget what she’d lived through. I’ve experienced a lot of trauma in my life, and I think my Bachan understood that and took special attention to me. I miss her a lot. I hope to carry myself with even an ounce of her kindness.
Start a world war or use nuclear bombs? Because realistically, at the end of ww2, attempting to invade japan to force surrender would have caused far more casualties to each side, making it, although horribly, the smartest thing to do it that situation.
The last picture reminded me of a story told by a survivor from a documentary who was 7 years old at the time. He was playing hide and seek with his friends at school that day. When the bomb went off he could see his finger bones and after that it was all black. When he came to, he could hear his best friend calling for help and he was talking to him. Later, a soldier pulled him out of the rubble and carried him on his back. On the way they passed a begging person who was so badly burned that it was impossible to tell if it was a man or a woman. The soldier took him to a spot by the river where survivors had gathered (as in picture two). There he also met his father. He didn't tell what happened to his friend.
@@karito1358 "Abwurf der Atombombe 1945" ruclips.net/video/SahOpPiA_mA/видео.html but the documentary is in German Edit: I'm Sorry if this video isn't available in your country. I can't explain it myself
The burning people drawing was pretty disturbing. You could only imagine how terrifying that looked in real life. I don't care what people think but there are no good sides in war.
I saw a video just yesterday where they were excited a ukraine bomb landed right on an open russian tank hatch. I couldn't help but think, no matter what side it is, thats not healthy.
In the Hiroshima museum, there are actual photos of radiation damage to the citizens. Also have displays of bony growths removed from the skin. Some of the most disturbing photos were of rescuers trying to pull people out of a lake, but when they held on to the arms - - the skin came off like gloves. Others showed blackened spots where people had been instantly incinerated.
@@nugsymalone1247 at least with Ukraine they're actively fighting a war they begged not to happen. And the Russian soldiers are acting like actual monsters.
I suggest you guys watch Barefoot Gen, it's a an anime movie about a boy who survives the Hiroshima bombings and his struggles navigating a destroyed home. All the drawings shown here are portrayed with utmost accuracy in the movie.
Oh that scene scarred me as a kid, but I wouldn't have had it any other way. It both viscerally showed the devastation and emotions around it, as well as cementing a respect for the animation industry there really being capable of producing well drawn, measured depictions of beauty and horror.
In this corner of the world was another interesting ww2 portrayal. It's peaceful at first, but then it just shows this really sudden creepy scene out of nowhere of what happened to the people after the bombing and it just sticks in your mind. Tbh, though, couldn't really keep up with the other plot, kinda random.
@@XDaddyBender This mindset is the reason war never ends. Nothing justifies throwing atom bombs if you ask me, especially not on civilians. Also, one tragedy doesn't lessen another one. Where did I say that I don't feel for the victims of Pearl Harbor? Still, a teen that has done nothing to cause this war doesn't deserve to see people with their flesh hanging from their bones. Toddlers shouldn't be buried alive, only to be exposed to fallout. The people in power are to blame, not the countless civilians or men sent to war because, well, they were men. Can't we just feel for innocent victims on every side?
@@XDaddyBender And imagine how the families at Iraq , Vietnam and Afghanistan felt as mothers and their children were bombed by USA for no reason , that why Americans should be bombed too
@@XDaddyBender Remember that time America bombed Laos for 9 years for absolutely no reason? 98% of the deaths being civilians? 2 million bombs. 2 million.
@@awetistic5295 the Japanese killed more people than the germans did during ww2 and committed acts of brutally towards innocent civilians. The bombings were awful but the Japanese got off easy compared to the nations they invaded
Thank you all for the kind words towards Japan ❤❤ my grandma was always telling me about my grandpa and the war and everything she experienced as a child during the war. She’s around 90 now but she doesn’t hate America or Japan. She doesn’t take sides because she doesn’t think it’s worth it. I know that she’d support what most of you guys are saying because I do too. ❤❤❤
I visited Hiroshima a few years back on my Japan trip. It was almost impossible to imagine what happened there, until you see the epicenter. I went to the museum and I think I had tears in my eyes the whole time. All those poor people. Innocent people. I know it is a painful memory for the city, but I'm glad they kept the ruins of the epicenter - as a reminder of the people who died and to remember that war is never noble or righteous. Only the worst humanity can muster. Let us all remember, so it may never happen again.
I visited Hiroshima back in 2009. Including the Peace Museum. It was quite sickening, I could barely eat afterwards because of it. People don't realise that Japan was already on the verge of collapse. There were no need for bombs or launch an attack. A blockade would have had the same effect. It is also haunting to know that Hiroshima was the secondary target. Nagasaki didn't suffer as much from the bombing, due to its location. But seeing the place where the bomb went off, was still haunting.
@@Ikajo Japan was definitely on its last legs but it was still fighting like a rabid dog. Back to back to back war crimes were being committed on their end and the kamikazes were still being used in full. It's a shame that the USA decided to kill millions of innocents in efforts to end the war, but it's worth noting that this was not an act of completely unnecessary violence for an "easy victory", it was a calculated decision that was agonized over by many back then and still to this day.
My grandpa, rest his soul, was in one of the first waves of troops after the Hiroshima bomb. He had so many pictures of the aftermath. I remember finding the album in their attic when I was little just staring at all these haunting pictures. So much rubble and destruction. It was a lot for 7 year old me to process. I took them down to him and asked what they were and he just stared at me and walked away. His body was riddled with so many kinds of cancer. He never spoke of what happened there. It haunted him until the day he died.
My sister and I being curious kids, found a bunch of pictures that our dad (WWII veteran, USN in the Pacific) had thought that he had placed - - where none of us six kids could could find them. He burned them after that.
don't be sad. all EAST ASIAN AND SOUTH EAST ASIAN are grateful with your bombing. we were treated cruel by japanese during WW2. they act innocent by erased the history of their invation to their neighbour. until today there so many japanese don't know the reason why they were bombed. They act they are victim. so what about Us the rest east asian and south east asian. we were treated no better than animal during WW2.
@@simsgazytech2013 people like yourself who say things like this are always interesting to me. Because in what part of your imagination do believe that civilians deserved to be decimated at the cost of petty political bullshit?
If u were there its gonna be sooo brutal that u will explode to fast that your eyes, intestines, brain, lungs and more parts of ur body will just land to some trees while ur blood is like raining
I saw some of these drawings at the museum in Hiroshima. It is really terrifying, because there are many of the drawings that depict how people were trying to get in the little river that runs through the city but so many people were dying on the staircases they were blocking the way. Then you step out of the museum and just a few minutes walk away is the very river with the very steps you saw in the photos and you can practically see their horrific memory before you. It was an inconceivable horror.
@@kagu4r “no matter what side wins in war, humanity always loses.” Did you even read the comment? It doesn’t matter that we won. This was still horrible. This shouldn’t be glorified. And, hopefully, it never happens again.
They did dirty things at all epochs. Difference went with industrial bombing back into napoleon wars. Flesh was not a temple anymore, but a bag of meat.
Civilians are the main victim? Tell that to all the soldiers deployed and dying. A the chances of dying in a war is 3x higher for a soldier than a civilian.
I hate war so much. Such a shame innocent people who aren't involved in the war get hurt and even killed due to governments having a feud with one another... (Edit: Due to people misunderstanding the use of the skull emoji at the end of my sentence, I'm removing it so people in the comments can calm down. Just keep scrolling and send your regards to the people involved in this tragedy.)
I used the skull emoji to show distress in this issue. The use of this emote was in no way to show disrespect to the victims of this tragedy. (Adding this because the internet is weird, why are y'all caring about me using a emoji??)
@@weirwadefolk9088 What do you mean it has a bad reputation? And who cares if someone likes their own comment? Most people on RUclips like their own comment. I'm just trying to send my regards to this video and you're getting pressed by me using a emoji.
I visited the Hiroshima Museum in Japan in 2019. I cried so much I got a headache and felt guilty about being thirsty. In Japanese schools, they discuss the bombing of Hiroshima as a tragedy, but don’t seek to instill hate into the students. Instead, they focus on making sure something like that never happens again.
mhmm, they should also stop playing victim at the same time, and maybe teach their students that they arent always angels in the world war too, and that this incident happened for a reason and have saved countless of other lives the japanese have taken away/ruined. Honestly, i dont pity them, i doubt it was as painful as the other atrocities the japanese committed
@@jonmartindeiii962 America does the same thing by glorifying the mass genocide of 2 Japanese cities. At least have some sympathy for the innocent civilians who were the main target. The soldiers did commit atrocious crimes but why did the civilians who had nothing to do with it have to pay?
@@fiber8653 Nah, even right now the japanese are still playing victims. Schools in japan doesn't teach the atrocities they did. They only teach something about them being a victim.
the one thing I'm grateful to my old school about is that they taught us about the result of the bombing. they did a play of the 1000 paper cranes story, which has stayed with me in the back of my mind my whole life. the result of the bombing is sadly skipped over in american schools, but I'm happy that I got to see that play and learn about what they went through while I was still a kid. teaching children about the bad things in the world may seem inappropriate, but sometimes it might be an okay thing to do
@@JurassicGlitchy every country is guilty of its crimes. One thing that I've noticed looking through history is that it's never clear if there's really any definitive "hero" to our story. Picking sides is just a losing game.
the last drawing makes me actually sad.. almost everytime when something happens, everyone will be naked, having their clothes set on fire or some of other types. the way hes giving his hand, last minutes on his life, and then never seen. the blood, his "smile", everything.
I see a lot of people being very insensitive towards Japan and many other countries. We should chop it up to the fact ALL countries have some DARK history. History has always been built upon bloodshed. These survivors did not ask to be bombed. The people who were victims of the awful bombings, have y’all not thought to realize many didn’t want to fight the war? That many were stuck? That they had no choice? Yes they attacked Pearl Harbor, at the height of world war 2. But did they really even have a choice considering Japan was drastically different at that time? Many older folks in Japan still despise Americans and with good reason, just as how people who know the history of their country have a right to be angry at their oppressors. It’s not a battle of “who had it worse” or “what about when they did this” It’s a moral dilemma that you believe everyone in a country, regardless if they are able to leave or not, are patriots to their own government. There is nothing glorious about war. I recommend for everyone to watch ‘All Quiet On The Western Front’ if y’all truly think we should just be pointing blame back and fourth, instead of the fact that war is not something we, as humans, should be so ready to do. ‘Grave Of The Fireflies’ by Studio Ghibli is an example of such a side in Japan during ww2. A boy lost everything in an instant. He did everything he could to save his sister to no avail. In the end, he couldn’t even save himself. But yet here we are, with people acting cynical when we should be learning not to do this again 😢 I hope the victims and the families of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombs can rest in true peace, I hope someday the world will listen.
I mean when your people kill 35 million Asian peoples and the government dosent apologize out of “honor” and whatever I can understand why people hate Japanese people. At least the Germans repayed the Jews and poles the money they owned while Japan dosent pay Taiwan South Korea and Philippines and Indonesia no money.
@@kenonrai7487 You're literally just doing what the person said not to do. Yes those were atrocious tragedies that shouldn't have happened, but events like that have also happened in other countries.
@@kenonrai7487 What about it? Do you believe civilian populations deserve to be punished for the actions of their country's military? If that's the case, where are you from? I'm sure we can find something awful your country did and why you personally apparently deserve to get nuked for it.
I hope no one ever uses nukes every again. Too many innocent people have died from these 2 nukes. I don’t care what a government did, punishing the civilians who had no say in anything is unfair and cruel.
Sure hoping nukes aren’t used but it is what it is as for you’re innocence take being involved aka enlisting or supporting the war effort with money and taxes did cause deaths some supported maybe the majority maybe some didn’t want war but no country should slaughter millions and expect no deaths or retaliation 250K from the two nukes as indirect justice with 10+ million civilians who didn’t ask for it in other countries
These nukes killed far less people on both sides than America’s alternative options. Others consisting of cutting off resources and invading, leading to mass starvation. Civilians are the main resource in war, and in war, you cut the enemy off from resources. I think people are just now beginning to have the ground breaking realization that war isnt as cool as it looks in games.
@@laurent3760 Do you how much pain radiation causes? If you survive, you are actually facing a fate more torturous and painful then death. It is very, very, very rare for someone to survive until old age with those complications.
@@laurent3760 i said it somewhere else before, but radiation poisoning is one of the worst ways to die. You wanna know what happens? Well, if you received a fatal dose of radiation, one of the first things that happen is that you throw up. If you touch radioactive material your skin may even burn. What happens inside is; your DNA, for lack of a better term, unravels/gets destroyed. Your chromosomes get destroyed, so do your white blood cells and your immune system fails, leaving you much more vulnerable. You can even die from a cold in that state. The other stuff that happens is much more graphic, so i wont say it here in case you or someone else is very squeamish about that stuff, but if you want to learn more about it i recommend that you look up the case of Hisashi Ouchi. He wasnt a victim if Hiroshima or Nagsaki, but his case gives a lot of insight in how truly dangerous radiation is and how painful dying if radiation poisoning is.
When I was a kid I had a comic that was told from the perspective of a little boy who survived the bombings also the anime Barefoot Gen comes to mind also. I really have nothing else to say other than it was heartbreaking and as a kid it was unimaginable. Rest in peace to all the innocent souls lost. I know Japan did a lot of deplorable things not just to us but to the Chinese and even their own people. I don't mean to sound like a capt. obvious but it's so easy to forget that there are innocence in every place just as their are bad in every place.
The moment that nuke was created, they created a new planet. The thought that science has been used for something capable of this and so much more is very sad
Technological innovation came at a great cost that's for sure. We just have to hope that it's power isn't used for evil because it could be so destructive
@@garden_creature Not talking about the bomb... the arms race during ww2 accelerated the rate of technological advancement significantly, and is a big reason why tech is such a prevalent part of our society today
My school teaches me EVERY YEAR about Pearl Harbor but we hardly EVER learn about Hiroshima Edit: bruh tf is wrong with you people, why you guys arguing over this comment, IT’S NOT THAT DEEP GO TOUCH SOME GRASS 💀💀💀
Pay attention in school and you might actually learn something. I just finished an essay on it for my AP US History course. It is spoken about but you are probably just to stupid to listen.
these drawings, just, the feeling of them, theyre so powerful. rest in peace all of the victims that died in the hiroshima and nagasaki bombing. as an american, what happened digusts me.
As a french kid I've always seen this as a victory, turns out it was a tragedy My vision of the bombing has changed ever since I've watched Barefoot Gen May the people that perished rest in peace 🙏💞💕
People kept praying for the Hiroshima bombings’ victims to take a peaceful rest, but let’s not forget to pray for the other civilians who became the victims of the Japanese army warcrimes committed back then🙏🏼 At the end, war is never a good thing
@@XDaddyBender pearl harbor was done against a military base and didn't make thousands of people expirience burning alive. pearl harbor happening was not a justification to use nuclear weaponry
It’s sad how a disagreement no matter how small always ends in war, literally or metaphorically. And it’s always the people who are associated in either side that suffers. No one side is innocent, but everyone that suffered should forever be held in peace.
It's terrifying and confusing and puts me in a moral nightmare that sickens me, I know that Japan committed atrocities, I know that they started it. But these old people and women and kids didn't. It just hurts me to think that we have been this depraved for years. People like to think that we've been getting worse but honestly our abilities to hurt people have always been there and have always been exercised. (Edit) Stop fighting please, the Japanese were morally in indisputable wrong. But the civilians didn't deserve any of this in Japan. Can we just agree that both attacks are a tragedy and stop shifting the blame and move past this as a society? (Another Edit) The Japanese government was wicked in every sense of the word, we may have done more good than they did, but Hiroshima is a tragedy for a reason. We should just agree that everything that happened was tragic. A horrible government committed horrible crimes. Our government went after cities in that country and civilians died, a lot of them. But can we please just come to the point that we stop the whole “Japan deserved it.” and realize it's not as simple? We should work to keep something like this from ever happening again. Let us put this to bed and hope this doesn't repeat itself.
It's hard to imagine the things we felt back then, hearing about the millions dead in the war and discovering all of the atrocities after it was over. We like to scorn our forebears for their actions in the past because we are privileged enough to be in a time of peace. We don't know what it's like to have to choose between hundreds of thousands of OUR soldiers, or the people of the country who invaded us. I pray we don't have to make the decision again.
What the AI makes will be an emulation of the pictures already made. In fact, I think AI can make things like these right now, but, drawings like these specific ones are unique because of the events and emotion that went behind them. An AI can make more paintings like it, but unless they make nuclear bombs like youtuber user Gigachad said, there won't be the emotion behind it, because the AI isn't making art of what it personally lived through.
The piece at 1:33 is horrifying because it makes me imagine how a photo of that would look. Skin melting off, survived initial blast but are sure to die not long after.
I remember the story of the man in the well. He was digging a well with another man. occasionally they switched one man digging in well, one man above pulling up buckets of soil. As he was descending into well, man heard plane engines, shortly after the bomb fell and he was blinded, and then a blast shook everything. His friend fell into the well, screaming in pain, his skin and clothes burned, fires raged above, he held the man as he died, choking and praying. Sometime later he crept out, to a world changed.The city close by, decimated! People stumbled about shrieking, yet he himself was physically unscathed. Of all he saw that night , he was the only one!
My Chinese-Javanese (Indonesian) Grandma always said Japanese army are so cruel to indigenous people, when u brought Japan Flag with only one hand, they would cruely punish you, they would tie your body and force u to look at the sun until you get blind, she's tell me a lot but i just gave the one of the most cruel thing in her story
It's so sad how some experienced this at very young ages such as 17. I can't believe this happened. I hope those injured were able to recover and I hope that those who survived don't have much trauma or that they get scared to do things because of this experience. Hopefully this doesn't happen again.
Something I always think about when I visit the Nagasaki and Hiroshima Atomic Bomb museums is the Ground Zero room. For those who have never seen it, it's this giant room that you're met with when you enter a hallway with a tall wall filled with artifacts found in the aftermath of the bombing. When you reach the end of the hallway, you find that the very same wall that you were wondering why it was so tall had a whole other story to tell on the other side. Imagine yourself entering a huge circular room, nearly empty except for a small fountain in the middle of the room. When you look around, all you see on the walls are tiles around the size of your hand if you turn it sideways. On the signs posted, they tell you that every single tile on the walls symbolize either every victim, or every 10 victims (I apologize if I don't have the exact information, it's been a while since I've been able to pay a visit to these memorials). Of course, this was an estimate since not every victim could be counted from this disaster. It always breaks my heart whenever I visit this museum, and my heart goes out to everyone who was a victim to this tragic event.
We live in a time just past when there are any survivors of the war to tell their tales. My generation was one of the last to hear them speak of the horrors they survived first hand. To see the pain and fear that still lives in the hearts of those who lived through it. To see them telling their story and hoping that we would learn from it. And now we prove that we heard but did not listen. That we looked but did not see. I’m 30 now, and we were visited by these survivors in elementary school. Almost 80 years later and we stand on the threshold of repeating our own horrible mistakes as a species.
The way in us history class they end the lesson with, "And we nuked Japan...Twice." And just casually move on to the next lesson after casually explaining how the US committed a war crime just to win a war
@ThatOneKid In this case an eye for an eye ended an invasion that would’ve killed millions more, the americans even had planes dump fliers with translated messages in an attempt to have locals leave the area, but interviews revealed that many were simply that confident in their emperors protection or saw it as propaganda to the point that they would not leave
@@isaacvidales6143 somehow i highly doubt all the 5 year olds who where incinerated were involved with the rape of nanking. do us americans deserve to get nuked for pinochet, banana republics, and the vietnam war?
@@larrygaroth9773 Well what does it matter? The to be invader are simply replaced by another. Millions are still felled after it was over. The US become the “most military involved“ country with all countries in the world (save for three: Andorra, Bhutan, and Liechtenstein). It’s always the same old cycles of violence with government bodies and military hungry for power. Toppling each other for petty dominance on the floating space rock.
Rest in peace to all the people that died during the bomb, i can't imagine how it felt to experience that and even at a young age. the way they described it was enough for me to be too horrified to even imagine what it would be like.
I couldn't help but feel bad for both the victims who died in the blasts and the survivors. They're innocent people who were living their lives like everyone else. It just shows what war is capable of to normal people.
This really made me realize just how bad this was I already knew how bad it sounded to me but growing up watching horror movies and creepy pastas I can imagine how scary it looked.I also realized how it’s not just you die or you didn’t but you can feel the radiation.im glad I changed schools because The school didn’t just give us the we bombed Japan twice and that’s it like my other school I actually learned how it effected the Japanese and Japanese Americans in Farewell to Manzanar how in the book they we alienated for something they had no part in while there family could potentially be dead of severely wounded made me feel terribleness I wasn’t even alive when it happened.
Its so terrifying to know innocent lives were taken from war the world can be a horrible place and it must be terrifying to the many survivors to rethink of those memories.
(WARNING: I wrote a long comment so if you don't wanna read it don't click read more) As an artist I feel the pictures in a way, different than I would before I was, the colors, the shapes, the everything! It's crazy how sad the pictures feel to me... How the colors make me feel: green-ish yellow: pain, weakness, burning, serve sadness Black: emptiness, weakness, the feeling of not happy ever Orange: wishing I spent more time with loved ones, feeling its all my fault, wishing I was the one who died, death, life flashing before my eyes How the lines\shapes made me feel: Straight lines: insecure, horrible, dead, sadness Triangles: trust issues, feeling like crying If you want me to add more ask in the replies
I'm an artist too, but I don't really feel the same feeling you're feeling in most of these pictures. though i agree with the points that you made, i think the colors and lines _does_ mean something deeper. one drawing in particular gave me a different feeling than the others. when i saw the "Ghost-like" drawing, i felt shivers. the colors that was picked, the posture of the bodies, their heads hanging low making their faces not visible. it's like i felt what they were feeling in that picture... it's crazy. anyways, you could add more to it if you want, i'm kind of curious about your other opinions on the pictures.
@@kiraelin Idk what feeling I'm feeling words can't describe this so it might be more similar than you think, anyways what should I add? Specific explanations for every drawings maybe?
While visiting my husband in Japan in the early 1970s, we visited the Hiroshima museum. It was very intense because of the displays, showing such terrible damages that their citizens went through. My dad was in the USN in the Pacific during WWII and rarely talked about it.
The civilians were just living their lives, they weren’t the brutal soldiers going on conquests, they weren’t raping or pillaging, they were civilians living like everyone else.
@@juusto7171 You pay taxes, that goes to the military, if your military then went and committed war crimes without your knowledge, do you feel that you yourself should be killed in a nuke because you indiscriminately gave money to your government?
It's a privilege to see their work and hear their thoughts, as so much of really history is hidden here in the US. There are a handful of situations that broke the myth of American exceptionalism for me, and this was definitely one of them. To think we'd be willing to do it again in unconscionable
@@iluvfentsomuch that kind of thinking is the reason why there's still war today. I can't even begin to tell you how disgusting, useless and damaging this thinking is.
I always am appalled how so many innocent live die and not even the root of issues face any pain whatsoever. Like Putin. He destroyed so much of Kiev and messed up so many lives, but he’s still safe in his little home facing very little consequences.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but did anime come from the Japanese venting their art through animation? Is that why they're so many explosions resembling the hiroshima nukes' shape.
The origin of anime is probably very similar to the origin of cartoons in the west. Generally, art is invented because it's cool. Then it keeps being used because it provides a medium for people to vent their feelings that can't be explained by words alone.
I’m all for displaying these “drawings” right next to The Rape of Nanking, Pearl Harbor, Alexandra Hospital massacre, Lana massacre, Bangladeshi Island massacre, Parit Solung massacre, Palawan massacre, Wake Island massacre, Tinta massacre, Bataan Death March, on… and on… and on, Drawings. 👍🏻
“But they bombed pear harbor” it doesn’t matter. These were innocent people, children, mothers, fathers, brothers, daughters. No one deserved this. There is no reasonable excuse for war
In an invasion, the US estimated Japan would fight on, and millions who couldn't fight to the death would attempt to kill themselves. I hate to say this, but killing thousands of civilians in two cities by nukes was much better than raising the entire country to the ground, causing millions more deaths.
@@sclice8680 I also agree. The Battle of Okinawa seemed to be a prologue of what the invasion of Japan would look like. Japanese soldiers heavily entrenched in rough terrain while fighting to the bitter end, using the civilians as meatshields, and forcing thousands to commit mass suicide
My great great uncle was a pilot whose job it was to record the aftermath of these bombings. He was never the same again and could never find peace. He ended up leaving and never returning.
i had to read it for an assignment in college and i couldn't sleep for 2-3 days as i was so shaken just from reading the accounts and having to write about them knowing that they were real. i'm sorry that you went through similar, here's hoping we will never have to see anything like this again in history
We think of us as above animals, that we're better than them, and yet history proves the opposite. Let us never forget the sheer idiocy of the previous generations and let's make the world a better place, not for a planet cut up by borders, but for a united humanity.
@@thepencillovinglegend5634 Ah yes because refusing to accept reality and keeping our species split up until the sun blows up is the wisest move we could make
I remember seeing a film, when I was a child, about Hiroshima, I will NEVER forget seeing people dead every where on the streets, with their babies crying next to their bodies. Those images still have the power to often make me cry, even now. God forgive me for the hatred I feel for all the suffering and the people who caused it. Jesus has faith in us, and I wonder why????
The play on this event still confuses me...yes, it ended the war much sooner, and prevented many deaths, but...these were civilians...if any other country were responsible, we'd call it the worst act of terrorism in history...so why don't we?
You've already stated the reason: It was done to end the war sooner and prevent many more deaths. The planned invasion of the Japanese home islands would have resulted in many times more deaths than those that occurred in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As far as another country doing it, if the British had dropped an atomic bomb on Berlin in the early months of 1945, would we have condemned it as an act of terrorism? No. End the war sooner. Prevent many more deaths, particularly the deaths of your own people if you don't do it. We were faced with two terrible choices: Drop the bombs and kill a lot of people or don't drop the bombs and kill many times more people.
I don’t know how brushed up you are on that segment of history, but Japan was doing some truly horrific crap to their neighbors during that period as well. There’s this weird push to sanitize all of that, but they were no innocents in that war.
@@taterboob Very true. The things that were done to Chinese (and many others as well) of all ages were absolutely horrific. Cannibalism was also practiced on Allied prisoners and even some of their own on New Guinea.
@@taterboob and you think European countries didn't do the exact same stuff? The USA did the exact same stuff, spoiler: European countries did it as well. I get the feeling that y'all are brainwashed af by the USA "but japan bad!" yeah so what? Pick up some history books that weren't written by some murican neo fascist and you'll learn that everyone did the same thing, no whataboutism, no good guys.
日本人だけどアメリカやアメリカ人を恨んではいない。 自分はPTSDについてかなり学んだが核爆弾を落としたのはアメリカだけど、戦後初めて被爆者の心の傷を理解しようと走り回ったのもまたアメリカ人だった。日本人ではなくアメリカ人の精神科医Robert Jay Liftonだったのよ。 被爆者に対して偏見を持ち差別して来たのは日本人だったという悲しい歴史がある。
It’s so sad that people really think that the torture and killing of thousands of innocent lives was okay. There is no justification in killing the innocent, killing the young children, all of it. That last picture that a person who was SEVENTEEN years old at the time created… 助けてあげられなくてごめんなさい… I am sorry that I cannot save you… what a tragic scene for such a young person to witness. Let alone the many more that witness the same. Horrible insight into how disgusting humans can be.
To all those saying it was an atrocity. This was necessary, it ironically saved millions more lives than it took. It is tragic yes. But it was necessary
Though necessary, i cant help but think, was it really? Yes it saved millions while simultaneously destroying millions, however is all of it necessary? why do we always resort to violence. Its so unnecessary and unfair. I do understand that it we cant just come to an agreement for whatever reason, but we are destroying our earth as a result. If we keep fighting and bringing nuclear weapons into battles we’re all gonna perish lmfao
@엄시원 yes my point is not that we shouldn’t have nuked them, but that we shouldnt be having these wars in the first place Believe me, i’m chinese LMFAO im reminded constantly by my elders of how much they hate the Japanese and what the Japanese did.
Lol it wouldn't have happened if Japanese didn't attack us first and kill innocent Americans the Japanese were more cruel to the American and British soldiers than we were to them
One thing to keep in mind was that Japan was gonna drop bombs with Rubella and small pox on San Diego if this didnt happen. As much waste as there was from this event there would have been just as much death and destruction if it didnt happen if not more. There were no angels. This was an act of war. Not genocide.
The fact that.... beyond these drawings. I can't imagine it in my mind... yet these people witnessed & endured it. May God bless EVERY SOUL who suffered that day. 😔🙏💜💜💜💜💜
It's recorded that 70,000 to 135,000 people died in the Hiroshima bombing.
RIP to all those souls.
A nuclear bomb is Hell on Earth. It is a horror. May it never occur again.
It's gonna accur again, read the real news not that ABC News and crap.
nuclear bombs today are bigger than the ones from Hiroshima and Nagasaki
It will
They did worse things to the Chinese
@@MimeBrikkOkay, but the civilians didn't do anything
We Americans always end the WW2 unit in school by saying “then we bombed Japan twice with nukes and won” and then completely move on, like we didn’t commit an atrocity. There is no victory in war.
that was the only way to end the suffering throughout east asia under the imperial jap empire
It ended a deadly war that would've killed even more if it hadn't been done. They also had to go fight hitler and couldn't do that without ending the first. A lot of lives were saved because of the bombs. It's their crazy leader at the time who is to blame.
I mean they did rape women from other asian countries and massacred them even Bayoneting their babies without mercy and even had the GALL to record them doing it
Tbh yes it's horrible but let's not act like the gov back then was innocent. (i doubt you are but ive seen weebs say that)
Edit: cant wait till the og post has 500 comments, i wont be spammed by the same 300 comments bruv night
lol i said good things on both sides, yet you still complaining. if i said thzy deserved it i would be bashed, if i said they didnt i would be bashed, i said both, im being bashed, cant win on ytb. hope u guys know that what you said has been said in the przvious 400 comments ;)
@@user-sg4ov7ng4h why are you bringing the gov into this? innocent people were bombed and disfigured.
the “I’m sorry, I cannot save you” made me feel sad, just to think of seeing somebody you know or important to you in a situation on which you can’t do anything but move on is just depressing, may all the people that died on that event Rest In Peace
sure snowflake #gobiden #ukraine #transrights #blm #usathegreatestcountryonhistory
MacDonals nahida...
yeaa fr.. like what if ur a mother/father that has dedicated their lives on their children? Or what if u promised friend/sibling that you will be togther forever? Only for them to die and you will survive and live in sadness..
bro thats so sweet of you and so true.. that is really sad
you know this is a great message but i just wanted to point out that you have a mcdonalds genshin profile picture and i hate everyone who has a mcdonalds genshin profile picture with a burning passion
I’m a sansei generation Japanese American, my Bachan was 13 when the bomb fell in Hiroshima. She survived because a bookcase fell on top of her, and once she managed to get herself out from underneath, she had to walk the streets past melted bodies to seek help. I never asked her what that was like. It was never, ever my place to know. Miraculously, she was the only surviving member of her family who didn’t get horrible radiation sickness, or cancer from the fallout. She was flown back to Japan once a year for testing, up until she got too old to do it anymore and lost herself to dementia. I’ve started learning Japanese to feel closer to her, since she’s passed on. Looking at how small and sweet she was, it was easy to forget what she’d lived through. I’ve experienced a lot of trauma in my life, and I think my Bachan understood that and took special attention to me. I miss her a lot. I hope to carry myself with even an ounce of her kindness.
Oh my God stop your whining everybody gots problem shut up
She sounds resilient, and wonderful. Thanks for sharing
I’m sorry but what’s a bachan?
@@Callieirl grandma I think
Absolute fucking survivor, she is. Rest in peace to such a legend like her...
I really hope we're smart enough not to do something like this again
all we can do is hope
humanity is smart enough to create vessels of death, but not smart enough to know what to utilize it for.
Putin doesn't seem to be
Start a world war or use nuclear bombs?
Because realistically, at the end of ww2, attempting to invade japan to force surrender would have caused far more casualties to each side, making it, although horribly, the smartest thing to do it that situation.
America won't stop until they've ensured that this planet is engulfed in flames.
The last picture reminded me of a story told by a survivor from a documentary who was 7 years old at the time. He was playing hide and seek with his friends at school that day. When the bomb went off he could see his finger bones and after that it was all black. When he came to, he could hear his best friend calling for help and he was talking to him. Later, a soldier pulled him out of the rubble and carried him on his back. On the way they passed a begging person who was so badly burned that it was impossible to tell if it was a man or a woman. The soldier took him to a spot by the river where survivors had gathered (as in picture two). There he also met his father. He didn't tell what happened to his friend.
do you happen to remember the name of the documentary?
@@karito1358 "Abwurf der Atombombe 1945"
ruclips.net/video/SahOpPiA_mA/видео.html
but the documentary is in German
Edit: I'm Sorry if this video isn't available in your country. I can't explain it myself
@@sushijuice440 It is interesting that this video is unavailable in Canada.
@@TheDarkAngel3579 its the same here in the philipines
Not available in my country and I live in USA
The burning people drawing was pretty disturbing. You could only imagine how terrifying that looked in real life. I don't care what people think but there are no good sides in war.
There is a good side in war. The people. If you have to shoot an American soldier to save a foreign child you do it.
I saw a video just yesterday where they were excited a ukraine bomb landed right on an open russian tank hatch. I couldn't help but think, no matter what side it is, thats not healthy.
In the Hiroshima museum, there are actual photos of radiation damage to the citizens. Also have displays of bony growths removed from the skin. Some of the most disturbing photos were of rescuers trying to pull people out of a lake, but when they held on to the arms - - the skin came off like gloves. Others showed blackened spots where people had been instantly incinerated.
@@nugsymalone1247 at least with Ukraine they're actively fighting a war they begged not to happen. And the Russian soldiers are acting like actual monsters.
@@ursidae97 I get what you're saying but when you fight in a war, everyone are monsters to someone else.
Who declare war? Politics. Who suffer? Civilians.
Real. And also people who sit on the couch? Blame innocent people who suffer
Wondering what kind of politics led to siding with nazis and the nanjing massacre 🤔
@@muffinconsumer4431 wdym
@@muffinconsumer4431 npc
@@VengefulPolititron sure bud.
I suggest you guys watch Barefoot Gen, it's a an anime movie about a boy who survives the Hiroshima bombings and his struggles navigating a destroyed home. All the drawings shown here are portrayed with utmost accuracy in the movie.
Oh that scene scarred me as a kid, but I wouldn't have had it any other way. It both viscerally showed the devastation and emotions around it, as well as cementing a respect for the animation industry there really being capable of producing well drawn, measured depictions of beauty and horror.
That movie had to be toned down though. The manga shows more of what really happened and its umm... more gruesome
@@shadowsinmymind9 how was it exaggerating please ? I'm curious
Same with Graveyard of The Fireflies
In this corner of the world was another interesting ww2 portrayal. It's peaceful at first, but then it just shows this really sudden creepy scene out of nowhere of what happened to the people after the bombing and it just sticks in your mind. Tbh, though, couldn't really keep up with the other plot, kinda random.
No person should go through such horror and pain. Absolutely heartbreaking.
Yea imagine how the familes at Pearl Harbor felt as mothers and their children were bombed by Japan for no reason so "then" we bombed them back.
@@XDaddyBender This mindset is the reason war never ends. Nothing justifies throwing atom bombs if you ask me, especially not on civilians. Also, one tragedy doesn't lessen another one. Where did I say that I don't feel for the victims of Pearl Harbor? Still, a teen that has done nothing to cause this war doesn't deserve to see people with their flesh hanging from their bones. Toddlers shouldn't be buried alive, only to be exposed to fallout. The people in power are to blame, not the countless civilians or men sent to war because, well, they were men. Can't we just feel for innocent victims on every side?
@@XDaddyBender
And imagine how the families at Iraq , Vietnam and Afghanistan felt as mothers and their children were bombed by USA for no reason , that why Americans should be bombed too
@@XDaddyBender Remember that time America bombed Laos for 9 years for absolutely no reason? 98% of the deaths being civilians? 2 million bombs. 2 million.
@@awetistic5295 the Japanese killed more people than the germans did during ww2 and committed acts of brutally towards innocent civilians. The bombings were awful but the Japanese got off easy compared to the nations they invaded
Thank you all for the kind words towards Japan ❤❤ my grandma was always telling me about my grandpa and the war and everything she experienced as a child during the war. She’s around 90 now but she doesn’t hate America or Japan. She doesn’t take sides because she doesn’t think it’s worth it. I know that she’d support what most of you guys are saying because I do too. ❤❤❤
Neither does my grandma
I dont mean this disrespectfully but the Imperial Japanese were atrocious war criminals.
South Korea, China, Philippines...
@@bimates2690 Did the civilians do the killings?
What a wise woman!
I feel so sorry for the ones who painted those pictures, what they’ve seen. It’s truly haunting to imagine the horror they faced.
I visited Hiroshima a few years back on my Japan trip. It was almost impossible to imagine what happened there, until you see the epicenter. I went to the museum and I think I had tears in my eyes the whole time. All those poor people. Innocent people.
I know it is a painful memory for the city, but I'm glad they kept the ruins of the epicenter - as a reminder of the people who died and to remember that war is never noble or righteous. Only the worst humanity can muster.
Let us all remember, so it may never happen again.
Let us never start World War 3 for “the shits and giggles.” So this entire horrifying war isn’t beaten by WW3 as the worst war to ever be waged.
I visited Hiroshima back in 2009. Including the Peace Museum. It was quite sickening, I could barely eat afterwards because of it. People don't realise that Japan was already on the verge of collapse. There were no need for bombs or launch an attack. A blockade would have had the same effect.
It is also haunting to know that Hiroshima was the secondary target. Nagasaki didn't suffer as much from the bombing, due to its location. But seeing the place where the bomb went off, was still haunting.
@@Ikajo Japan was definitely on its last legs but it was still fighting like a rabid dog. Back to back to back war crimes were being committed on their end and the kamikazes were still being used in full. It's a shame that the USA decided to kill millions of innocents in efforts to end the war, but it's worth noting that this was not an act of completely unnecessary violence for an "easy victory", it was a calculated decision that was agonized over by many back then and still to this day.
My grandpa, rest his soul, was in one of the first waves of troops after the Hiroshima bomb. He had so many pictures of the aftermath. I remember finding the album in their attic when I was little just staring at all these haunting pictures. So much rubble and destruction. It was a lot for 7 year old me to process. I took them down to him and asked what they were and he just stared at me and walked away. His body was riddled with so many kinds of cancer. He never spoke of what happened there. It haunted him until the day he died.
My sister and I being curious kids, found a bunch of pictures that our dad (WWII veteran, USN in the Pacific) had thought that he had placed - - where none of us six kids could could find them. He burned them after that.
don't be sad. all EAST ASIAN AND SOUTH EAST ASIAN are grateful with your bombing. we were treated cruel by japanese during WW2. they act innocent by erased the history of their invation to their neighbour. until today there so many japanese don't know the reason why they were bombed. They act they are victim. so what about Us the rest east asian and south east asian. we were treated no better than animal during WW2.
@@simsgazytech2013so the innocent civilians that had nothing to do with all that deserved this. Are you saying the CHILDREN deserved this?
@@simsgazytech2013 people like yourself who say things like this are always interesting to me.
Because in what part of your imagination do believe that civilians deserved to be decimated at the cost of petty political bullshit?
@@fandomtrash7505 i mean children were raped in Nanjing as well as other south asian countries
I’m 17 and i can’t even imagine being in that situation.. :(
Get ready cause you will know very soon, the whole world will know.
If u were there its gonna be sooo brutal that u will explode to fast that your eyes, intestines, brain, lungs and more parts of ur body will just land to some trees while ur blood is like raining
@@XDaddyBender Looking forward to it
@@XDaddyBender is that a threat or a prediction
@@diegobordones2106 I guess it's whatever you want it to be if you are not intelligent enough to understand what I said previously.
I saw some of these drawings at the museum in Hiroshima. It is really terrifying, because there are many of the drawings that depict how people were trying to get in the little river that runs through the city but so many people were dying on the staircases they were blocking the way. Then you step out of the museum and just a few minutes walk away is the very river with the very steps you saw in the photos and you can practically see their horrific memory before you. It was an inconceivable horror.
WWII was the definition of "do whatever it takes"
"No time for has hesitation"
It was the definition of "god is dead"
Victory comes first especially when you face a enemy who rival the Nazis in deaths caused and fanaticism
@@jacobgoodstone7572 Who said he existed? We have always been savages. We just do it in different forms.
@@rickitysplitz7035 Even if God was real, his intended purpose was to keep peace on earth between fellow man. Humanity killed god just with war.
It’s crazy to me how some Americans still see this as a win.
No matter which side wins in war humanity always loses…
What Americans?
@@Furry8383 If you read the comments you'd understand
japan surrendered, it's regarded as a win by almost everyone except for you
@@kagu4r “no matter what side wins in war, humanity always loses.” Did you even read the comment? It doesn’t matter that we won. This was still horrible. This shouldn’t be glorified. And, hopefully, it never happens again.
I mean they surrendered
80 years ago isnt a long time when you felt that life is fast
What are you talking about 80 years is a very long time
@@victorkreig6089not really
@@kosakionodera1050 yes it is, we're humans so we're talking in human times because nothing was specified, 80 years is a lot
Once the sword played an important role in warfare and emerged as the true warrior, today civilians are the main victims of war.
Civilians have always been the main victim of wars
Fr
Wdym? The mongols raped , killed, bury people alive, absolute destroy cultures and even make skull pyramids
They did dirty things at all epochs. Difference went with industrial bombing back into napoleon wars. Flesh was not a temple anymore, but a bag of meat.
Civilians are the main victim? Tell that to all the soldiers deployed and dying. A the chances of dying in a war is 3x higher for a soldier than a civilian.
I hate war so much. Such a shame innocent people who aren't involved in the war get hurt and even killed due to governments having a feud with one another...
(Edit: Due to people misunderstanding the use of the skull emoji at the end of my sentence, I'm removing it so people in the comments can calm down. Just keep scrolling and send your regards to the people involved in this tragedy.)
i agree, but why the skull emoji 😅
Why the skull emoji
I used the skull emoji to show distress in this issue. The use of this emote was in no way to show disrespect to the victims of this tragedy.
(Adding this because the internet is weird, why are y'all caring about me using a emoji??)
@@Skittyissocool it just has.. well.. bad reputation. also please dont like your own comment bro
@@weirwadefolk9088 What do you mean it has a bad reputation? And who cares if someone likes their own comment? Most people on RUclips like their own comment. I'm just trying to send my regards to this video and you're getting pressed by me using a emoji.
I visited the Hiroshima Museum in Japan in 2019. I cried so much I got a headache and felt guilty about being thirsty. In Japanese schools, they discuss the bombing of Hiroshima as a tragedy, but don’t seek to instill hate into the students. Instead, they focus on making sure something like that never happens again.
mhmm, they should also stop playing victim at the same time, and maybe teach their students that they arent always angels in the world war too, and that this incident happened for a reason and have saved countless of other lives the japanese have taken away/ruined.
Honestly, i dont pity them, i doubt it was as painful as the other atrocities the japanese committed
@@jonmartindeiii962 America does the same thing by glorifying the mass genocide of 2 Japanese cities. At least have some sympathy for the innocent civilians who were the main target. The soldiers did commit atrocious crimes but why did the civilians who had nothing to do with it have to pay?
@@fiber8653 collateral damage, nothing they could do about that
@@fiber8653 Nah, even right now the japanese are still playing victims. Schools in japan doesn't teach the atrocities they did. They only teach something about them being a victim.
@@fiber8653 Japanese probably wont even know about nanjing massacre
the one thing I'm grateful to my old school about is that they taught us about the result of the bombing. they did a play of the 1000 paper cranes story, which has stayed with me in the back of my mind my whole life. the result of the bombing is sadly skipped over in american schools, but I'm happy that I got to see that play and learn about what they went through while I was still a kid. teaching children about the bad things in the world may seem inappropriate, but sometimes it might be an okay thing to do
And to teach that your country isn’t always a hero
@@JurassicGlitchy every country is guilty of its crimes. One thing that I've noticed looking through history is that it's never clear if there's really any definitive "hero" to our story. Picking sides is just a losing game.
This types of things are Never the right thing to do
I got shivers and my eyes got teary. War is such a terrible thing. RIP to all those who lost their lives
the last drawing makes me actually sad..
almost everytime when something happens, everyone will be naked, having their clothes set on fire or some of other types. the way hes giving his hand, last minutes on his life, and then never seen. the blood, his "smile", everything.
These people have strong minds for drawing their experience.
I see a lot of people being very insensitive towards Japan and many other countries. We should chop it up to the fact ALL countries have some DARK history. History has always been built upon bloodshed.
These survivors did not ask to be bombed. The people who were victims of the awful bombings, have y’all not thought to realize many didn’t want to fight the war? That many were stuck? That they had no choice?
Yes they attacked Pearl Harbor, at the height of world war 2. But did they really even have a choice considering Japan was drastically different at that time? Many older folks in Japan still despise Americans and with good reason, just as how people who know the history of their country have a right to be angry at their oppressors.
It’s not a battle of “who had it worse” or “what about when they did this”
It’s a moral dilemma that you believe everyone in a country, regardless if they are able to leave or not, are patriots to their own government. There is nothing glorious about war.
I recommend for everyone to watch ‘All Quiet On The Western Front’ if y’all truly think we should just be pointing blame back and fourth, instead of the fact that war is not something we, as humans, should be so ready to do.
‘Grave Of The Fireflies’ by Studio Ghibli is an example of such a side in Japan during ww2. A boy lost everything in an instant. He did everything he could to save his sister to no avail. In the end, he couldn’t even save himself.
But yet here we are, with people acting cynical when we should be learning not to do this again 😢
I hope the victims and the families of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombs can rest in true peace, I hope someday the world will listen.
Then what about about the rape of Nanking where the Japanese commit some of the worst atrocities during ww2 and unit 731
I mean when your people kill 35 million Asian peoples and the government dosent apologize out of “honor” and whatever I can understand why people hate Japanese people. At least the Germans repayed the Jews and poles the money they owned while Japan dosent pay Taiwan South Korea and Philippines and Indonesia no money.
@@kenonrai7487 You're literally just doing what the person said not to do. Yes those were atrocious tragedies that shouldn't have happened, but events like that have also happened in other countries.
@@kenonrai7487 What about it? Do you believe civilian populations deserve to be punished for the actions of their country's military? If that's the case, where are you from? I'm sure we can find something awful your country did and why you personally apparently deserve to get nuked for it.
@Ken Onrai and u think the civilians are to blame for the atrocities the army or the leader did?
That's just stupid
I hope no one ever uses nukes every again. Too many innocent people have died from these 2 nukes. I don’t care what a government did, punishing the civilians who had no say in anything is unfair and cruel.
Sure hoping nukes aren’t used but it is what it is as for you’re innocence take being involved aka enlisting or supporting the war effort with money and taxes did cause deaths some supported maybe the majority maybe some didn’t want war but no country should slaughter millions and expect no deaths or retaliation 250K from the two nukes as indirect justice with 10+ million civilians who didn’t ask for it in other countries
These nukes killed far less people on both sides than America’s alternative options. Others consisting of cutting off resources and invading, leading to mass starvation. Civilians are the main resource in war, and in war, you cut the enemy off from resources. I think people are just now beginning to have the ground breaking realization that war isnt as cool as it looks in games.
Eh the fire bombings were worse. We talk about it in school but they are not dramatic enough to be mainstream.
@@laurent3760 Do you how much pain radiation causes? If you survive, you are actually facing a fate more torturous and painful then death. It is very, very, very rare for someone to survive until old age with those complications.
@@laurent3760 i said it somewhere else before, but radiation poisoning is one of the worst ways to die. You wanna know what happens?
Well, if you received a fatal dose of radiation, one of the first things that happen is that you throw up. If you touch radioactive material your skin may even burn. What happens inside is; your DNA, for lack of a better term, unravels/gets destroyed. Your chromosomes get destroyed, so do your white blood cells and your immune system fails, leaving you much more vulnerable. You can even die from a cold in that state. The other stuff that happens is much more graphic, so i wont say it here in case you or someone else is very squeamish about that stuff, but if you want to learn more about it i recommend that you look up the case of Hisashi Ouchi. He wasnt a victim if Hiroshima or Nagsaki, but his case gives a lot of insight in how truly dangerous radiation is and how painful dying if radiation poisoning is.
These are absolutely tragic and horrific. The last painting in particular is just so saddening
When I was a kid I had a comic that was told from the perspective of a little boy who survived the bombings also the anime Barefoot Gen comes to mind also. I really have nothing else to say other than it was heartbreaking and as a kid it was unimaginable. Rest in peace to all the innocent souls lost. I know Japan did a lot of deplorable things not just to us but to the Chinese and even their own people. I don't mean to sound like a capt. obvious but it's so easy to forget that there are innocence in every place just as their are bad in every place.
civilians and children should never be involved in war
The moment that nuke was created, they created a new planet. The thought that science has been used for something capable of this and so much more is very sad
Technological innovation came at a great cost that's for sure. We just have to hope that it's power isn't used for evil because it could be so destructive
@@padarousou how is a giant death bomb innovative, and how could it be used for anything other than evil and destruction?
@@garden_creature Not talking about the bomb... the arms race during ww2 accelerated the rate of technological advancement significantly, and is a big reason why tech is such a prevalent part of our society today
@@garden_creature stalemates
“There’s no morning glory, it was war; it wasn’t fair.”
An excellent soruce for what happened to the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is Summer 1945 by Thomas Goodrich.
My school teaches me EVERY YEAR about Pearl Harbor but we hardly EVER learn about Hiroshima
Edit: bruh tf is wrong with you people, why you guys arguing over this comment, IT’S NOT THAT DEEP GO TOUCH SOME GRASS 💀💀💀
*maybe because its not part of your country*
literally no education system teach about their country *warcrime* so search it urself lol
Pay attention in school and you might actually learn something. I just finished an essay on it for my AP US History course. It is spoken about but you are probably just to stupid to listen.
@@minhdatnguyen8125 so? my country wasnt involved much in wwii but they still taught about hiroshima and pearl harbor.
what grade are you in?
My dad always says that no one wins in a war
these drawings, just, the feeling of them, theyre so powerful. rest in peace all of the victims that died in the hiroshima and nagasaki bombing. as an american, what happened digusts me.
As a french kid I've always seen this as a victory, turns out it was a tragedy
My vision of the bombing has changed ever since I've watched Barefoot Gen
May the people that perished rest in peace 🙏💞💕
People kept praying for the Hiroshima bombings’ victims to take a peaceful rest, but let’s not forget to pray for the other civilians who became the victims of the Japanese army warcrimes committed back then🙏🏼
At the end, war is never a good thing
Yea everyone acts like Pearl Harbor didn't happen before America bombed Japan.
@@XDaddyBender pearl harbor was done against a military base and didn't make thousands of people expirience burning alive. pearl harbor happening was not a justification to use nuclear weaponry
@@XDaddyBender
My Man compare a civilian city with a military base 💀
@@youamazing41 well you forget the nanking massacre
@@azmipra4461 Yup.
The bleeding/burned people is very disturbing... may the victims rest in peace.
It’s sad how a disagreement no matter how small always ends in war, literally or metaphorically. And it’s always the people who are associated in either side that suffers. No one side is innocent, but everyone that suffered should forever be held in peace.
It's terrifying and confusing and puts me in a moral nightmare that sickens me, I know that Japan committed atrocities, I know that they started it. But these old people and women and kids didn't. It just hurts me to think that we have been this depraved for years. People like to think that we've been getting worse but honestly our abilities to hurt people have always been there and have always been exercised.
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Stop fighting please, the Japanese were morally in indisputable wrong. But the civilians didn't deserve any of this in Japan. Can we just agree that both attacks are a tragedy and stop shifting the blame and move past this as a society?
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The Japanese government was wicked in every sense of the word, we may have done more good than they did, but Hiroshima is a tragedy for a reason. We should just agree that everything that happened was tragic. A horrible government committed horrible crimes. Our government went after cities in that country and civilians died, a lot of them. But can we please just come to the point that we stop the whole “Japan deserved it.” and realize it's not as simple? We should work to keep something like this from ever happening again. Let us put this to bed and hope this doesn't repeat itself.
As an American myself I know we have such a long history of this behavior but I have trouble stomaching it.
It's hard to imagine the things we felt back then, hearing about the millions dead in the war and discovering all of the atrocities after it was over. We like to scorn our forebears for their actions in the past because we are privileged enough to be in a time of peace. We don't know what it's like to have to choose between hundreds of thousands of OUR soldiers, or the people of the country who invaded us.
I pray we don't have to make the decision again.
@@manwhoismissingtwotoenails4811 as an chinese person i can say i know more what happened to china
@@MrAnimason i do as well, i know we fancy ourselves better than that but we're still the same species.
@Spreemazing Nah. Hard disagree. At the end of the day flags mean nothing. Its the people under those flags that matter and in war everyone loses
It breaks my heart that innocent civilians are the ones who got the most sufferings
The part of my brain that I hate just keeps wondering how long it'll be before somebody cheapens this by asking an AI to start making more.
Then dont talk about it or you will give away the idea
I think you meant "How to start making nuclear bombs by asking an AI"?
What the AI makes will be an emulation of the pictures already made. In fact, I think AI can make things like these right now, but, drawings like these specific ones are unique because of the events and emotion that went behind them. An AI can make more paintings like it, but unless they make nuclear bombs like youtuber user Gigachad said, there won't be the emotion behind it, because the AI isn't making art of what it personally lived through.
Thats what they want though.
The piece at 1:33 is horrifying because it makes me imagine how a photo of that would look. Skin melting off, survived initial blast but are sure to die not long after.
@MassiveLibCawk 🇺🇦 it is not. it was real.
I remember the story of the man in the well. He was digging a well with another man. occasionally they switched one man digging in well, one man above pulling up buckets of soil. As he was descending into well, man heard plane engines, shortly after the bomb fell and he was blinded, and then a blast shook everything.
His friend fell into the well, screaming in pain, his skin and clothes burned, fires raged above, he held the man as he died, choking and praying. Sometime later he crept out, to a world changed.The city close by, decimated! People stumbled about shrieking, yet he himself was physically unscathed. Of all he saw that night , he was the only one!
My Chinese-Javanese (Indonesian) Grandma always said Japanese army are so cruel to indigenous people, when u brought Japan Flag with only one hand, they would cruely punish you, they would tie your body and force u to look at the sun until you get blind, she's tell me a lot but i just gave the one of the most cruel thing in her story
It's so sad how some experienced this at very young ages such as 17. I can't believe this happened. I hope those injured were able to recover and I hope that those who survived don't have much trauma or that they get scared to do things because of this experience. Hopefully this doesn't happen again.
Sad yes but it had to happen
Something I always think about when I visit the Nagasaki and Hiroshima Atomic Bomb museums is the Ground Zero room. For those who have never seen it, it's this giant room that you're met with when you enter a hallway with a tall wall filled with artifacts found in the aftermath of the bombing. When you reach the end of the hallway, you find that the very same wall that you were wondering why it was so tall had a whole other story to tell on the other side. Imagine yourself entering a huge circular room, nearly empty except for a small fountain in the middle of the room. When you look around, all you see on the walls are tiles around the size of your hand if you turn it sideways. On the signs posted, they tell you that every single tile on the walls symbolize either every victim, or every 10 victims (I apologize if I don't have the exact information, it's been a while since I've been able to pay a visit to these memorials). Of course, this was an estimate since not every victim could be counted from this disaster. It always breaks my heart whenever I visit this museum, and my heart goes out to everyone who was a victim to this tragic event.
Man they mustve felt the heaviest survivors guilt, i also cant imagine their trauma
We live in a time just past when there are any survivors of the war to tell their tales. My generation was one of the last to hear them speak of the horrors they survived first hand. To see the pain and fear that still lives in the hearts of those who lived through it. To see them telling their story and hoping that we would learn from it. And now we prove that we heard but did not listen. That we looked but did not see. I’m 30 now, and we were visited by these survivors in elementary school. Almost 80 years later and we stand on the threshold of repeating our own horrible mistakes as a species.
The way in us history class they end the lesson with, "And we nuked Japan...Twice." And just casually move on to the next lesson after casually explaining how the US committed a war crime just to win a war
Yeah. Japan definitely didn't commit atrocities to innocent chinese people
@ThatOneKid I'm not taking a quote created by racist who had his niece sleep with him in bed, and let his wife suffer seriously.
@ThatOneKid In this case an eye for an eye ended an invasion that would’ve killed millions more, the americans even had planes dump fliers with translated messages in an attempt to have locals leave the area, but interviews revealed that many were simply that confident in their emperors protection or saw it as propaganda to the point that they would not leave
@@isaacvidales6143 somehow i highly doubt all the 5 year olds who where incinerated were involved with the rape of nanking. do us americans deserve to get nuked for pinochet, banana republics, and the vietnam war?
@@larrygaroth9773 Well what does it matter? The to be invader are simply replaced by another. Millions are still felled after it was over. The US become the “most military involved“ country with all countries in the world (save for three: Andorra, Bhutan, and Liechtenstein).
It’s always the same old cycles of violence with government bodies and military hungry for power. Toppling each other for petty dominance on the floating space rock.
Rest in peace to all the people that died during the bomb, i can't imagine how it felt to experience that and even at a young age. the way they described it was enough for me to be too horrified to even imagine what it would be like.
I have extremely vivid nightmares and these just portrayed everything that I see and hear while asleep
The "Im sorry, I cannot save you" broke my heart man
I remember learning about this a few days after learning about Pearl Harbor
I cried waterfalls about the innocent civilians that were affected
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I couldn't help but feel bad for both the victims who died in the blasts and the survivors. They're innocent people who were living their lives like everyone else. It just shows what war is capable of to normal people.
This really made me realize just how bad this was I already knew how bad it sounded to me but growing up watching horror movies and creepy pastas I can imagine how scary it looked.I also realized how it’s not just you die or you didn’t but you can feel the radiation.im glad I changed schools because The school didn’t just give us the we bombed Japan twice and that’s it like my other school I actually learned how it effected the Japanese and Japanese Americans in Farewell to Manzanar how in the book they we alienated for something they had no part in while there family could potentially be dead of severely wounded made me feel terribleness I wasn’t even alive when it happened.
Giving respect that they was able to survive until now 😔
Its so terrifying to know innocent lives were taken from war the world can be a horrible place and it must be terrifying to the many survivors to rethink of those memories.
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As an artist I feel the pictures in a way, different than I would before I was, the colors, the shapes, the everything! It's crazy how sad the pictures feel to me...
How the colors make me feel:
green-ish yellow: pain, weakness, burning, serve sadness
Black: emptiness, weakness, the feeling of not happy ever
Orange: wishing I spent more time with loved ones, feeling its all my fault, wishing I was the one who died, death, life flashing before my eyes
How the lines\shapes made me feel:
Straight lines: insecure, horrible, dead, sadness
Triangles: trust issues, feeling like crying
If you want me to add more ask in the replies
I'm an artist too, but I don't really feel the same feeling you're feeling in most of these pictures. though i agree with the points that you made, i think the colors and lines _does_ mean something deeper. one drawing in particular gave me a different feeling than the others. when i saw the "Ghost-like" drawing, i felt shivers. the colors that was picked, the posture of the bodies, their heads hanging low making their faces not visible. it's like i felt what they were feeling in that picture... it's crazy.
anyways, you could add more to it if you want, i'm kind of curious about your other opinions on the pictures.
@@kiraelin Idk what feeling I'm feeling words can't describe this so it might be more similar than you think, anyways what should I add? Specific explanations for every drawings maybe?
@@Gir_fan sure, you can add that. or whatever helps you with expressing
@@kiraelin idk what to add tho
@@Gir_fan that's fine then, you don't have to add anything
as a kid i had reoccurring dreams of being caught in a nuclear bomb, i would wake up with my body feeling hot as hell. it was an innate fear i had
how did you get over it?
@@Cheesling after awhile I stopped having the dreams. The fear will always be there, but I don’t want to live life always being scared.
While visiting my husband in Japan in the early 1970s, we visited the Hiroshima museum. It was very intense because of the displays, showing such terrible damages that their citizens went through.
My dad was in the USN in the Pacific during WWII and rarely talked about it.
How about drawing from Nanjing or Unit 731 survivor
The civilians were just living their lives, they weren’t the brutal soldiers going on conquests, they weren’t raping or pillaging, they were civilians living like everyone else.
@@zaammy3584 nah..they all responsible. They are all yellow nazis
@@zaammy3584 but they still supported and contributed to their country's war efforts
@@juusto7171 You pay taxes, that goes to the military, if your military then went and committed war crimes without your knowledge, do you feel that you yourself should be killed in a nuke because you indiscriminately gave money to your government?
It's a privilege to see their work and hear their thoughts, as so much of really history is hidden here in the US. There are a handful of situations that broke the myth of American exceptionalism for me, and this was definitely one of them.
To think we'd be willing to do it again in unconscionable
having to leave children to burn to death would haunt me forever, I wouldn't be able to handle it
A lot of those people were innocent and didn't have any say in what their government were planning.
Seeing people try to justify their suffering in the comments makes my blood boil
People be brining up "it was needed to end the war" Okay but this video is about the thoughts about the victims of the nuke 💀 so dumb
Nanjing and unit 731 :)
Justified :) even the japanese civilians
@@iluvfentsomuch that kind of thinking is the reason why there's still war today. I can't even begin to tell you how disgusting, useless and damaging this thinking is.
@@betsmith3821 people are only bringing that up when someone says "america is bad for this"
I know. The fact that every semi-large reply thread has had more than 1 comment removed by YT says a lot about what they were saying in them.
I always am appalled how so many innocent live die and not even the root of issues face any pain whatsoever. Like Putin. He destroyed so much of Kiev and messed up so many lives, but he’s still safe in his little home facing very little consequences.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but did anime come from the Japanese venting their art through animation? Is that why they're so many explosions resembling the hiroshima nukes' shape.
The origin of anime is probably very similar to the origin of cartoons in the west. Generally, art is invented because it's cool. Then it keeps being used because it provides a medium for people to vent their feelings that can't be explained by words alone.
“Just look it up”
@@APerson-ni1gb Tried but to no avail
all of these are scary and sad but the third one has to be the most disturbing.
I’m all for displaying these “drawings” right next to The Rape of Nanking, Pearl Harbor, Alexandra Hospital massacre, Lana massacre, Bangladeshi Island massacre, Parit Solung massacre, Palawan massacre, Wake Island massacre, Tinta massacre, Bataan Death March, on… and on… and on, Drawings. 👍🏻
Pure horror, I got multiple goosebumps in those 3 minutes.
I visited the museum in Hiroshima a couple months ago. Words are not spoken inside. It is truly a harrowing experience.
no more war,,,, just science.
What do you mean you expect there to be any more wars
Science is the new war. Just look at the last 3 years.
Science is the root of destruction, and deviations in beliefs only stand to fan the flame of war.
@@Samcooley15 im suspecting that whatever is going on in Russia and Ukraine is likely gonna escalate from there
@@cometcal7387 its gonna end soon Ukraine is giving some land to Russia I think idk but something to atleast cool it down
The most dangerous weapon in all of war is pride.
The fact of knowing that all of these poor artists suffered traumatic post-nuclear injuries from radiation exposure…
“But they bombed pear harbor” it doesn’t matter. These were innocent people, children, mothers, fathers, brothers, daughters. No one deserved this. There is no reasonable excuse for war
It's crazy to think they still refused to surrender after the first one
In an invasion, the US estimated Japan would fight on, and millions who couldn't fight to the death would attempt to kill themselves. I hate to say this, but killing thousands of civilians in two cities by nukes was much better than raising the entire country to the ground, causing millions more deaths.
@Sclice I totally agree, but it's just crazy that they were still trying scrap it out after the first bomb.
@@crystalpapers6590 Yeah it is
@@sclice8680 I also agree. The Battle of Okinawa seemed to be a prologue of what the invasion of Japan would look like. Japanese soldiers heavily entrenched in rough terrain while fighting to the bitter end, using the civilians as meatshields, and forcing thousands to commit mass suicide
hypernationistic tendencies caused their soldiers to fight like rabid dogs until the end
My great great uncle was a pilot whose job it was to record the aftermath of these bombings. He was never the same again and could never find peace. He ended up leaving and never returning.
I read the book "Hiroshima" decades ago. The trauma of just reading that book lingers with me, still. Why do we do this? Why do we fund this?
Because if you don't fund it, other will do and use over you, that's why armies exist, and will forever exist.
i had to read it for an assignment in college and i couldn't sleep for 2-3 days as i was so shaken just from reading the accounts and having to write about them knowing that they were real. i'm sorry that you went through similar, here's hoping we will never have to see anything like this again in history
We think of us as above animals, that we're better than them, and yet history proves the opposite. Let us never forget the sheer idiocy of the previous generations and let's make the world a better place, not for a planet cut up by borders, but for a united humanity.
Globalist scum
@@thepencillovinglegend5634 Ah yes because refusing to accept reality and keeping our species split up until the sun blows up is the wisest move we could make
@@dud3655 Ah yes because creating a giant one world government which will suppress all individual thought and dissent is the wisest move we can make
@@thepencillovinglegend5634 What's the difference? We already do that
The difference is that it'll be stronger and it's going make us all live in the pods and bugs and shit.
I'll never ever understand why we do those things to each other....never.
Poor civilians. They got caught up into the rivalry of their leader. RIP to the people who died in WW1-WW2
I remember seeing a film, when I was a child, about Hiroshima, I will NEVER forget seeing people dead every where on the streets, with their babies crying next to their bodies. Those images still have the power to often make me cry, even now. God forgive me for the hatred I feel for all the suffering and the people who caused it. Jesus has faith in us, and I wonder why????
Mankind: We're the smartest animal to walk the planet!
The rest of nature: okay ;-;
Mankind 3 seconds later: *HAHA BIG BOMB GO BRRRR*
The play on this event still confuses me...yes, it ended the war much sooner, and prevented many deaths, but...these were civilians...if any other country were responsible, we'd call it the worst act of terrorism in history...so why don't we?
You've already stated the reason: It was done to end the war sooner and prevent many more deaths. The planned invasion of the Japanese home islands would have resulted in many times more deaths than those that occurred in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As far as another country doing it, if the British had dropped an atomic bomb on Berlin in the early months of 1945, would we have condemned it as an act of terrorism? No. End the war sooner. Prevent many more deaths, particularly the deaths of your own people if you don't do it. We were faced with two terrible choices: Drop the bombs and kill a lot of people or don't drop the bombs and kill many times more people.
I don’t know how brushed up you are on that segment of history, but Japan was doing some truly horrific crap to their neighbors during that period as well. There’s this weird push to sanitize all of that, but they were no innocents in that war.
@@taterboob Very true. The things that were done to Chinese (and many others as well) of all ages were absolutely horrific. Cannibalism was also practiced on Allied prisoners and even some of their own on New Guinea.
@@taterboob i mean yeah but the civilians bombed didn’t have any control over that
@@taterboob and you think European countries didn't do the exact same stuff? The USA did the exact same stuff, spoiler: European countries did it as well. I get the feeling that y'all are brainwashed af by the USA "but japan bad!" yeah so what? Pick up some history books that weren't written by some murican neo fascist and you'll learn that everyone did the same thing, no whataboutism, no good guys.
Thank you for posting this. We have to be reminded of the costs of ultimate war.
1:00 The art reminds me of that one part in barefoot gen with the people with no skin just their flesh
hey squid ink !
Video: Oh the screaming children trapped in the flames
Subtitles: music
Ah yes, the souls of innocent children screaming while being burned to death, *music to my ears*
It is necessary to learn and understand this side of it’s history, I’m honoured to have learned their feeling behind this
日本人だけどアメリカやアメリカ人を恨んではいない。
自分はPTSDについてかなり学んだが核爆弾を落としたのはアメリカだけど、戦後初めて被爆者の心の傷を理解しようと走り回ったのもまたアメリカ人だった。日本人ではなくアメリカ人の精神科医Robert Jay Liftonだったのよ。
被爆者に対して偏見を持ち差別して来たのは日本人だったという悲しい歴史がある。
RIP to innocent people that died during the hiroshima bombing
@user-or7lz4uz1uWhat to say?
@엄시원 the children weren't
It’s so sad that people really think that the torture and killing of thousands of innocent lives was okay. There is no justification in killing the innocent, killing the young children, all of it.
That last picture that a person who was SEVENTEEN years old at the time created… 助けてあげられなくてごめんなさい… I am sorry that I cannot save you… what a tragic scene for such a young person to witness. Let alone the many more that witness the same. Horrible insight into how disgusting humans can be.
To all those saying it was an atrocity. This was necessary, it ironically saved millions more lives than it took. It is tragic yes. But it was necessary
Though necessary, i cant help but think, was it really? Yes it saved millions while simultaneously destroying millions, however is all of it necessary? why do we always resort to violence. Its so unnecessary and unfair. I do understand that it we cant just come to an agreement for whatever reason, but we are destroying our earth as a result. If we keep fighting and bringing nuclear weapons into battles we’re all gonna perish lmfao
@@owihinape because the Japanese never surrender
@@owihinape it did not kill millions, it killed hundreds of thousands. But yes, we humans are destroying the earth
@@zacheecoolz8766 i think you just completely missed my point
@엄시원 yes my point is not that we shouldn’t have nuked them, but that we shouldnt be having these wars in the first place
Believe me, i’m chinese LMFAO im reminded constantly by my elders of how much they hate the Japanese and what the Japanese did.
Rest in Peace. A terrible tragedy. 🪦 🌹 🕊️
Let's not forget, the author of the original Barefoot Gen manga, Keiji Nakazawa, was a survivor of the bombings.
Damn I still can’t believe this happened. And we just move on like nothing happened. So Terrible
I mean.. It was 80 yrs ago
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@@mole6140 🙄
Well, actually, moving on is a sign of peace and harmony. If we stay forever stuck on the past we will have no future.
This was genocide, not war.
Lol it wouldn't have happened if Japanese didn't attack us first and kill innocent Americans the Japanese were more cruel to the American and British soldiers than we were to them
I agree
One thing to keep in mind was that Japan was gonna drop bombs with Rubella and small pox on San Diego if this didnt happen. As much waste as there was from this event there would have been just as much death and destruction if it didnt happen if not more. There were no angels. This was an act of war. Not genocide.
Yeah the Filipinos, Koreans and Chinese sat front row of it. Only Westerners never got to see the cruelty that was the pacific war, just the bombs.
Absolutely. Targeting civillian areas in a country that is already about to leave the war is nothing but cruelty.
The fact that.... beyond these drawings. I can't imagine it in my mind... yet these people witnessed & endured it. May God bless EVERY SOUL who suffered that day. 😔🙏💜💜💜💜💜