Australian - Journalist | September 16, 1911 - September 27, 1983
Could anything justify the extermination of civilians on such a scale?
Wilfred Burchett
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It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure that the surrender terms were being complied with and that living conditions for the POWs were being immediately improved.
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The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.
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Hundreds and hundreds of the dead were so badly burned in the terrific heat generated by the bomb that it was not even possible to tell whether they were men or women, old or young.
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