Image: ICRC-Archives FritzBilfinger-TelegramFromHiroshima-30August1945

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Description: A telegram sent by Fritz Bilfinger, delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), on 30 August 1945 from Hiroshima to Marcel Junod at the ICRC office in Tokyo. It has been preserved at the ICRC archives in Gnevea and reads: "Visited Hiroshima thirtieth, conditions appalling stop city wiped out, eighty percent all hospitals destroyed or seriously damaged; inspected two emergency hospitals, conditions beyond description full stop effect of bomb mysteriously serious stop many victims, apparently recovering, suddenly suffer fatal relapse due to decomposition of white blood cells and other internal injuries, now dying in great numbers stop estimated still over one hundred thousand wounded in emergency hospitals located surroundings, sadly lacking bandaging materials, medicines stop."
Title: ICRC-Archives FritzBilfinger-TelegramFromHiroshima-30August1945
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