{"id":2058,"date":"2014-05-10T23:02:42","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T23:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wptemp.barbarahast.de\/?p=2058"},"modified":"2014-06-29T14:13:53","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T14:13:53","slug":"mixed-feelings-at-hiroshima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidhuebner.de\/?p=2058","title":{"rendered":"Mixed feelings at Hiroshima"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_20140510_151947\"Visiting Hiroshima is a must, Dorit said. And I had to agree. Too significant history-wise, too important\u00a0as a memorial for our vulnerable future. Yet from the very moment I stepped off the train it felt weird being there. Was I an intruder? Was I practising\u00a0disaster tourism? I know it wasn’t me that dropped the bomb and it wasn’t my country either, but being a western tourist in\u00a0this city, that had dealt with so much pain, made me feel bad nonetheless.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_20140510_152025\"<\/a>Close to the A-Dome we stumbled across one of the few remaining victims, that had written a book with extra information that he felt was missing in the museum (see his blog<\/a>).\u00a0It also explained that the even in Hiroshima\u00a0the people\u00a0did not have hateful feelings against the American occupying force\u00a0after the war. There was too much\u00a0guilt for their own aggression, paired with a quick post-war recovery and some clever American media politics.<\/p>\n

Later that day we visited the well known\u00a0Peace Memorial Museum. The\u00a0internet guides had warned us, that it would ruin the rest of our day. We took\u00a03 hours, read carefully through all the information. Maybe we were already filled up with information, but by the time we got the the stories of the many pupils that didn’t come home after the bomb drop, that died hours or days later in the aftermath, the many personal items on display, partially burned to ashes and melted away, all that didn’t strike me as much as I thought it would. And while the endless\u00a0efforts of the city of Hiroshima against the\u00a0harnessing of nuclear energy and for world peace are absolutely important and remarkable, it sometimes felt like the\u00a0atomic bomb was presented as the only real
\nmilitary threat we have these days.<\/p>\n

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