Japan ready
to capitulate before the atomic bombing
Written by Dr.
Rolf Kosiek
Translated by
Dagmar Brenne
According to general opinion the two
atomic bombs, which were exploded over Japan on the 6th and 9th of. August
1945, were necessary to force Japan to capitulate and thereby end World War
Two in the Far East. These bombs cost at least 110,000 lives in Hiroshima
and at least 36,000 lives in Nagasaki , as well as many other casualties and
injuries in people over intervening years. For example, the “Chronicle of
the 20th Century” stated on the 6th of August 1945: “The USA force Japan to
capitulate by deployment of the devastating weapon. (1)”
This is by no means correct. Japan
was prepared to capitulate even beforehand and had signaled this readiness
in February 1945, via Moscow (2). The Allies nevertheless chose to ignore
it. Moscow still desired to enter the war against Japan, even though Japan,
despite pressure from Germany, had not declared war against the USSR
throughout the entire second World War. This resulted in Stalin's
war-deciding opportunity in autumn 1941 to throw all of his Eastern Siberian
forces against the offensive of German troops before Moscow, who then
declared war on Japan on the 8th of August 1945, in order to effect claims
of territory against Tokyo, among it the North Kuril Islands. Only after the
second atomic bombing did the USA accept Japans offer to capitulate.
The main reason as cited by
Washington, was not that the explosion of the atomic bombs shortened the war
and saved the lives of many US soldiers, but rather, that the atomic bomb,
which had initially been developed to be deployed against Germany, but was
only ready for use until after Germany's armed forces had already
capitulated in July 1945. Its devastating force had to be demonstrated to
the Russians, who as fellow victors needed to see the superior power of the
USA, and to forestall any future military conflict. For this reason hundreds
of thousands of civilians had to die.
On 2. September 1945, the Japanese
Armistice delegation appeared before General Douglas MacArthur. On the left:
Prime Minister Mamoru Shigemtsu, General Yoshijiro Umezu.
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Notes
1- “Chronicle of the 20. century”,
Chronik Publishers in Bertelsmann Publishing Company, Gütersloh 1999, S.
280.
2- Detailed documents relating to it
from US sources by: Mansur Khan, “The secret history of American wars.
Conspiracy and war in American foreign politics,” Grabert, Tübingen 1998,
page 224f, also Liddell Hart, “History of the Second World War”, Econ,
Düsseldorf-Wien 1972, Volume II, P. 858 f.
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