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Dates That Made History6th August 1945 - Hiroshima

27 min

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Historian Patrick Boucheron revisits major dates in history. Hiroshima is no longer just a city’ but a symbol for the anxieties of our nuclear age. Since history was annihilated in Hiroshima on the 6th of August 1945, a very modern question arises: How should we commemorate a catastrophe?

Director

Lucie Cariès

Country

France

Year

2017

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