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Dialogue: 0,0:32:46.98,0:32:50.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Asia the second world war began in 1937 when Japan
Dialogue: 0,0:32:50.65,0:32:53.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,launched a full scale attack on China.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:53.86,0:32:56.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like Germany, Japan was driven by the need for living space
Dialogue: 0,0:32:56.80,0:33:00.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and by a racial ideology that had the Japanese believing
Dialogue: 0,0:33:00.74,0:33:04.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they were superior to their neighbors. Japan's military
Dialogue: 0,0:33:04.98,0:33:08.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,leaders exploited the devotion of their people to help
Dialogue: 0,0:33:08.74,0:33:12.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,them wage a savage war throughout Asia.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:12.26,0:33:16.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The war would cost more than 10 million lives and ultimately take Japan's
Dialogue: 0,0:33:16.47,0:33:25.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,own people to the brink of destruction.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:25.68,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Japan 1942
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In war time Japan, every boy was prepared to be a soldier.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The japanese text books glorified war and taught children that their
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,emperor was a deity.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The japanese people were told they were superior
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and therefore invincible in this or any war.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the 1930's
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Japan's military leaders
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,go back and ransack the past and they pull out all these
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,images of purity and sincerity
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they pump them up into an ideology focusing on the emperor.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are a superior race because of our unique
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pure qualities and that's the equivalent to the Nazi's
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pumping up master race theories in the 30's.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were in what the emperor called a holy war.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We believed that we had a mission to achieve the so-called "hakko ichiu" meaning
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the 8 corners of the world under 1 roof. A world
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ruled by our emperor.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For Japan, China would be the first step towards a Japanese empire in Asia.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In December 1937, after capturing the provisional
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chinese capital Nan Jing, the Japanese soldier went on a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rampage against both defeated Chinese troops and civilians.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hiromichi Nagatomi, a Japanese student was in
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nan Jing. He was invited by the army to join in.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The officers said "watch carefully"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He took out his sword and poured water over it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Called one of the prisoners to step forward and order him to stick
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his neck out. Then the officer chopped his head off. The head fell
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and blood gushed from the arteries
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Seeing this, other chinese soldiers ran into the river.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I borrowed a rifle and shot one of them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was the first murder I committed in China.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The reverend John MgGee, an American missionary, wrote to his wife about what he saw
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The horror of the last week is beyond anything I have experienced
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I never dreamed that the Japanese soldiers were such savages.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They have not only killed every prisoner they could find but also a vast number of ordinary citizens of all ages.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I did not imagine that such cruel people existed in the modern world.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shiro Azuma kept a set of diaries during his tour of duty in Nan Jing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,deeply repentant for what he had done. He was the first former Japanese soldier to tell what happened.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whenever we found a girl, almost 100 percent of the time we raped her.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not just one of us, but 5 of us would rape her.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we always killed them afterwards. We simply set them on fire.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We felt no guild what so ever.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we raped we thought of them as humans but afterwards, when we killed them
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we thought of them as pigs.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In what came to be known as the rape of Nan Jing, the Japanese army killed nearly 200,000 civilians
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and raped an estimated 20,000 women.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Japanese barbarism would spread all over China.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At this one place, I came across some mothers holding their children.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were about 20 women
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I captured them and put them all in a house.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I put logs inside the house and a burned them all alive.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fact that I killed so many Chinese didn't even occur to me as a crime.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I regarded myself as a hero. I am loyal to the emperor and dutiful to my parents.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From China, Japan's warriors went on to conquer most of Southeast Asia.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In every country, they brutalized, exploited, and enslaved the people under the banner of liberation and cooperation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But slowly, the tide began to turn
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In mid-1942, the United States having entered the war 6 months earlier began to push the Japanese back.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The military controlled the press and didn't tell us the truth.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were told that we were winning, but some how sensed we were not winning.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As the allied forces ground away at the Japanese military, food and fuel dwindled.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the Japanese homefront, younger and younger children were sent to work in factories.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,United by slogans such as "one hundred hearts beating as one" the Japanese people were called upon
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make ever greater sacrifices to support a war they believed to be a decadent, and savage, and an unforgiving enemy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were lead to believe that Americans too individualistic.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that kind of individualism should be destroyed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let us say that the yankee devils and the british beasts or something like this and you know
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being devils and the beasts that the American's and the British must have horns and tails and must be very brutal
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's our notion of our enemy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For 2 years, Japan lost battle after battle.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In June 1944, American forces invaded Sai Pan. Only 1,500 miles from Tokeyo.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Obey orders to fight until the last man. The Japanese troops were annihilated.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Japanese civilians also refused to surrender and some were ordered by the Japanese military to commit suicide.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The civilians on the island may have been told that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we were terrible vicious people. That we would rape their women and murder them and so on.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were so convinced this was true that they finally got up to the cliffs on the North end of the island
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we saw them by the hundreds jumping into the ocean to the rocks down below
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,carrying their children with them sometimes
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Japanese government reports praised the civilians on the island for cooperating with the army
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Japanese newspapers glorified their death as sublime self sacrafice.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But by the summer of 1944, the Japanese military leadership concluded
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the Japanese military could not win the war.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then the Japanese government said yes indeed and all the people the hundred million
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,must be ready to fight until the bitter end. The Japanese phrase at the time
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was something called "gil cou sai" meaning a shattering of a jewel. It's a beautiful death.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now crazy people, crazy militarist said indeed, this is our honor
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we are all extinguished, so be it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the average citizen, what choice did you have.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A command given by a military superior was regarded given by the emperor.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The emperor was regarded as a living god.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were supposed to die for him and not supposed to question his authority in any way at all.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Exploiting the mythology of sacrifice for the emperor and the nation now turned suicide into a strategy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In October of 1944, the imperial navy formed the first cozi-unit.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Young Japanese pilots would fly one way missions to death.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ralph Sacamoto trained as a kamakazi pilot.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Several of my classmates actually did go on a one-way mission.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The members of the squadron who were not flying would line up outside the airfield
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to wave off the aircraft which was taking off.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I cried I guess.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I prayed for them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By April, 1945 the war had finally arrived on Japan's doorstep.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okinawa, only 40 miles from the Japanese main land.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1,900 kamakazi missions were unleashed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To defend the island, 15 year old students were used as human land mines.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we did was carry a small mine on our back, dig a small hole in view,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hide, and when the noise was close enough
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we were supposed to jump out and go under one of the catipilars.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The battle of Okinawa lasted for nearly 3 months.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many of the civilians hid in caves
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tony Kohiga was 6 years old. She was separated from her family and wandering alone.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In one cave, an old couple made her a white flag and urged the child to surrender.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I begged them, grandpa and grandma, please don't chase me away.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to die here.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She had been told that American soldiers would cut women and children into pieces.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I came out, I saw American soldiers and one of them was standing there with a black box.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought right away that they were going to kill me with that thing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My father once said to me, even if you're about to be killed by an enemy soldier,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don't die crying like a baby. Smile for the enemy when you die.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, thinking that that was it, I waved at them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But why does the soldier look so kind when he is about to kill someone.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Japanese suffered a disastrous defeat in Okinawa.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Japanese high command then issued orders for an all out mobilization at home.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A final desperate push to save the nation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's true that a hundred million people being mobilized and they leave for parish. They have to parish, you see.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Looking back and what a terrible idea
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,asking the whole population to parish for any call they see.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Japanese high command planned that the Japanese army would be joined by virtually the entire civilian population to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,defend against the Americans on the beaches in the event of an invasion.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The high command had not anticipated an attack by air.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As to make it appear that the kinds of things had happened there
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had not been done with the kind of intention that indeed had been done with.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Having dealt a death blow to Nazi Germany, the United States
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now prepared its final assault on Japan.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The airial campaign began with a bombing of factories and military installations
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,March, 1945 Tokeyo itself was selected as a target.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We received an astounding briefing that took everyone by surprise.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember distinctly, that there was a loud audible gasp that went up from the crew when they realized
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we were going in to Tokeyo at 7,000 feet, not 27,000 feet.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the most heavily defended city of Japan.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were carefully briefed with the full knowledge that the area to which we were assigned
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was in the densest part of Tokeyo.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The planes were striped of their guns so they could carry the maximum bomb load
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of 10 tons.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the evening of March the 9th, 325 super fortresses arrived over the Japanese capitol.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of the sudden, the blast from the airplanes came over like a roar.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It shook the windows and made a sound..."bebebebe"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We all ran.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From the west came a huge blanket of black smoke.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we penetrated that cloud, we ran into these very strong odors that seemed like it had to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be associated with a terrible tragedy. I just describe it as the smell of death.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I saw my mother trip and her hair stood on end and she screamed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then she fell off the bridge into the black smoke with my baby brother strapped to her back.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think she was trying to save my father but he went down with her into the smoke.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After we dropped our bombs, I could look right on the city burning below us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It looked like a part of Tokeyo had dropped down into hell that night.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In one night our American fire bombs killed 80,000 civilians.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tokeyo was only the beginning. 65 more Japanese cities would be bombed in this fashion.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Japan was being pulverized.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was only a few years earlier, that Americans had...this is barbaric.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Coming through the position that we must systematically bomb civilian populations to end the war
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this is proper and appropriate and even moral is an extrordinary moral and psychological journey
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in my view a journey toward hell.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On August the 6th, 1945, one plane and one bomb over Hiroshima.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The entire town of Hiroshima was burning and you could see the famous mushroom clouds
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I seen 500, 600 people burned, hurt, some of them dead.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of people floating in the river.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of them swimming, some of them dead.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our main street was turning to a show case of human cruelty.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If the blast hit you directly, your eyes popped out.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People are walking around holding their eye balls like this.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Young children, maybe first grade or kindergarten children yelling Mommy, Mommy, Mommy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then the teacher said, "Be patient. Mommy come after you"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The next morning all the children are dead.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I still in here have a clear picture of such innocent little children.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I walked through the hell, actually stepped through hell and returned.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,August the 9th, a second plane, a second bomb.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nagasaki.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the two atomic attacks, nearly 200,000 Japanese were killed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On August the 15th, 1945, Japan surrendered unconditionally.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The second world war was finally over.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the last days of the war, Victorious allied soldiers arrived on a terrain few could imagine or
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even have words to successfully describe.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The enormity of Nazi atrocities demanded an accounting.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At Neurumburg, once the scene of triumphant German pageantry.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,War crimes trials now made it clear to the world what Hitlor had tried to accomplish.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The rounds that we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So malignant and so devestating.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That civilization cannot tolerate there being ignored.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ernest Michelle who survived the death camps at auchowitz covered the trial
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for a German newspaper.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everyday when I went to this trail, I looked at them sitting maybe 30 feet away from me
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sometimes I had to stop myself from jumping at them and yelling, "What did you do to me? To my family?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"To my friends?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the first time in history, national leaders were held responsible for their aggression.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the first time the murder and enslavement of civilians for their political beliefs, their race,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or their religion was recognized as crimes against humanity.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You must plead guilty or not guilty.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Manny Claude Van Contier was called to testify in January 1946.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I tried to look at the each of them and I thought look at me because
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with my eyes and with my mouth, hundreds of thousands of your victims are accusing you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Neurumburg was the first of more than a dozen trials in which heinza group members, SS doctors, and others
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were made to answer for their crimes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In September 1946, 12 high ranking Nazi officials
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were sentenced to death.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A similar proceeding in Tokeyo tried 28 of Japan's highest ranking leaders.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The reverend John MgGee was a witness.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The killing began immediately, up to 30 soldiers together going about.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Each one seeming to have the power of life or death.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In this case, 7 of those on trial were sentenced to death.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,More than 5,700 Japanese officers and soldiers stood trial throughout Asia.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,More than 900 were executed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In a Chinese court, Hiromichi Nagatomi, the student who joined in the Nan Jing masecure
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was confronted by one of his victims.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said, Nagatomi, you killed my only son. You burned my only daughter to death.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When her father came home and saw what happened to them, he lost his mind and died.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'v suffered this sickness too.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I got on my knees to apologize but there was no way to make up for what I did.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There would be no apology or restitution to the estimated 1 million German and Japanese civilians
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who died in allied bombing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There deaths had become acceptable to those whose duty it was to end the war.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is hard to remember more than 50 years later, but when World War 2 began, victory for America
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and its allys was by no means assured. We will discover that on the next episode of the century. I'm Peter Jennings. Thank you for joining us.