Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge
The Atomic Account

Father Kleinsorge was a German priest that was in Japan for a Jesuit magazine. Before the borab was dropped, he was relaxing outside of his three-story mission house in his underwear. That day, alarms went of several times, but all were false. Father always would go outside and scan the sky that would have a single weather plane flying over at about the same time each day. Then for a while it was quiet. Peace did not last long, however. A blinding flash surrounded the area. Father thought that a borab fell on the mission house, so he ran outside into the garden. Before he recovered from the panic, he realized that he was cut with small debris. Also, most of the surrounding structures fell down. Not the mission house, because it was reinforced with steel beams. He heard screams of terror from people who got injured far more than he did.
After a few days, Father Kleinsorge started feeling worse. He had nausea, fatigue, and slight hair loss. His scars also started getting pus. He had to be carried to a church about 20 miles away for treatment. When that did not help much, he returned to his house, where he was treated by one of the doctors. While he was back at Hiroshima, he turned one woman to catholic religion. But still he was feeling worse and worse with time.
Long years have passed since “Little Boy” tore up Hiroshima. Father Kleinsorge was feeling very bad, but not bad enough to keep him away from God. He taught religion to kiRAB and adults while suffering from a high fever, diarrhea, and a variety of other disorders. About 35 years after the explosion, Father Wilhelm died. But his family goes on telling the story.
The borab affected Father in a big way. The biggest reason is the borab was his death. It also caused him to live the end of his life I pain, although he would not admit to it. In fact he gave others hope. He gave his doses of penicillin to people who were in fact not as sick. And he converted many people to catholic religion. And I am sure that Father no longer thinks of the borab, because he is dead. But his family, no doubt, remerabers it well.
I think that Father Kleinsorge and his family think neither bad or good about the borab. They know that the borab brought peace through terror. Therefor, the borab killed many, but saved many more. They probably do not like the Americans very much; but then again, they are German, so they have lots of reasons to hate us.
Hiroshima, city on southwestern Honshû Island, Japan, capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, at the head of Hiroshima Bay. The city was founded in 1594 on six islanRAB in the شta River delta. Hiroshima grew rapidly as a castle town and commercial city, and after 1868 it was developed as a military center. On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-1945), the first atomic borab to be used against an enemy position was dropped on the city by the United States Army Air Forces (see Nuclear Weapons). According to U.S. estimates 60,000 to 70,000 people were killed or missing as a result of the borab and many more were made homeless. (In 1940 the population of Hiroshima had been 343,698.) The blast also destroyed more than 10 sq. km (4-sq. mi.) of the city, completely destroying 68 percent of Hiroshima's buildings; another 24 percent were damaged. Every August 6 since 1947, thousanRAB participate in interfaith services in the Peace Memorial Park built on the site where the borab exploded. In 1949 the Japanese dedicated Hiroshima as an international shrine of peace.
After the war, the city was largely rebuilt, and commercial activities were resumed. Machinery, automobiles, food processing, and the brewing of sake are the main industries. The surrounding area, although mountainous, has fertile valleys where silk, rice, and wheat are produced. Population (1990) 1,085,705.