Remembering Hiroshima, fight nuclear weapons, power and capitalism
Remembering Hiroshima, fight nuclear weapons, power and capitalism Even if all the words about Hiroshima have been uttered, even if all the adjectives have been applied, it is not enough. For we have not yet removed the conditions that mak e Hiroshima and Nagasaki possible, even likely. It is right to remember Hiroshima on 6 August and Nagasaki on the 9th. But it is also necessary to remember the brutality of the imperialist war of which this was the culmination. When we remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we should also remember the Shoa, the death camps of Auschwitz and the rest. Even if we take the minimalist definition and split hairs between “Concentration Camps” and “Extermination Camps”, we get the following figures for the Nazis. Camp Estimated deaths Auschwitz–Birkenau 1,100,000 Bełżec 600,000 Chełmno 320,000 Majdanek