You Thought The Nanking Massacre Was Horrifying?

Unless you have been living in a hole your entire life, you probably have an idea what the rape of nanking is. If not, look it up.
Anyway, most of you probably don't know about Unit 731. I am doing some current research on Japanese warcrimes upon its Asian neighbours for a college thesis, some feedback is welcome. I have kept my support with images minimal as this is mature content. And for all of you that are going to take sides...don't. There is no moral side in war. A life is a life, and thereby needs to be treated with respect. I see no respect given by the Japanese at all and this is my opinion.

What was Unit 731? Read on....

Unit 731 was based in the Pingfang district of the city of Harbin in the puppet state of Manchukuo.
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Shiro Ishii, commander of Unit 731More than ten thousand people,[1] from which around 600 every year were provided by the kempeitai,[2] were subjects of the experimentation conducted by Unit 731. These were both civilian and military of Chinese, Korean, Mongolian, Russian, American and other nationalities as well as some Japanese criminals from the Japanese mainlands.[3] Some American and European Allied prisoners of war also died at the hands of Unit 731.[4] In addition, the use of biological weapons researched in Unit 731's bioweapons and chemical weapons programs resulted in tens of thousands of military and civilian deaths in China – possibly as many as 200,000 casualties by some estimates.[5]

Unit 731 was the headquarters of many subsidiary units used by the Japanese to research biological warfare; other units included Unit 516 (Qiqihar), Unit 543 (Hailar), Unit 773 (Songo unit), Unit 100 (Changchun), Unit Ei 1644 (Nanjing), Unit 1855 (Beijing), Unit 8604 (Guangzhou), Unit 200 (Manchuria) and Unit 9420 (Singapore).

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Many of the scientists involved in Unit 731 went on to prominent careers in post-war politics, academia, business, and medicine. Some were arrested by Soviet forces and tried at the Khabarovsk War Crime Trials; others, who surrendered to the Americans, were granted amnesty in exchange for access to the data collected by them.[6] On 6 May 1947, Douglas MacArthur, as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, wrote to Washington that "additional data, possibly some statements from Ishii probably can be obtained by informing Japanese involved that information will be retained in intelligence channels and will not be employed as 'War Crimes' evidence."[7] The deal was concluded in 1948.

Because of their brutality, Unit 731's actions have now been declared by the United Nations to have been crimes against humanity.

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ACTIONS

A special project code-named Maruta used human beings for experiments. Test subjects were gathered from the surrounding population and were sometimes referred to euphemistically as "logs" (丸太, maruta?).[11] This term originated as a joke on the part of the staff due to the fact that the official cover story for the facility given to the local authorities was that it was a lumber mill.[12] The test subjects were selected to give a wide cross section of the population, and included common criminals, captured bandits and anti-Japanese partisans, political prisoners, and also people rounded up by the secret police for alleged "suspicious activities" and included infants, the elderly, and pregnant women.

Vivisection
Prisoners of war were subjected to vivisection without anesthesia.[13][11]

Vivisections were performed on prisoners after infecting them with various diseases. Scientists performed invasive surgery on prisoners, removing organs to study the effects of disease on the human body. These were conducted while the patients were alive because it was feared that the decomposition process would affect the results.[14][11] The infected and vivisected prisoners included men, women, children, and infants.[15]

Vivisections were also performed on pregnant women, sometimes impregnated by doctors, and the fetus removed.[16]

Prisoners had limbs amputated in order to study blood loss.[11]

Those limbs that were removed were sometimes re-attached to the opposite sides of the body.[11]

Some prisoners' limbs were frozen and amputated, while others had limbs frozen then thawed to study the effects of the resultant untreated
gangrene and rotting.

Some prisoners had their stomachs surgically removed and the esophagus reattached to the intestines.[11]

Parts of the brain, lungs, liver, etc. were removed from some prisoners.[17][13][11]

In 2007, Doctor Ken Yuasa testified to the Japan Times that "I was afraid during my first vivisection, but the second time around, it was much easier. By the third time, I was willing to do it." He believes at least 1,000 persons, including surgeons, were involved in vivisections over mainland China.[18]
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Weapons testing

Human targets were used to test grenades positioned at various distances and in different positions.[11]

Flame throwers were tested on humans.[11]

Humans were tied to stakes and used as targets to test germ-releasing bombs, chemical weapons and explosive bombs.[11]

Germ warfare attacks

Prisoners were injected with inoculations of disease, disguised as vaccinations, to study their effects.[11]

To study the effects of untreated venereal diseases, male and female prisoners were deliberately infected with syphilis and gonorrhea, then studied[citation needed].

Prisoners were infested with fleas in order to acquire large quantities of disease-carrying fleas for the purposes of studying the viability of germ warfare[citation needed].

Plague fleas, infected clothing, and infected supplies encased in bombs were dropped on various targets. The resulting cholera, anthrax, and plague were estimated to have killed around 200,000 Chinese civilians.[11]

Tularemia was tested on Chinese civilians.[19]

Unit 731 and its affiliated units (Unit 1644, Unit 100, et cetera) were actively involved not only in research and development, but also in experimental deployment of epidemic-creating biowarfare weapons in assaults against the Chinese populace (both civilian and military) throughout World War II. Plague-infested fleas, bred in the laboratories of Unit 731 and Unit 1644, were spread by low-flying airplanes upon Chinese cities, coastal Ningbo in 1940, and Changde, Hunan Province, in 1941. This military aerial spraying killed thousands of people with bubonic plague epidemics.[20]

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Other experiments
Prisoners were subjected to other experiments such as:

being hung upside down to see how long it would take for them to choke to death.[11]

having air injected into their arteries to determine the time until the onset of embolism.[11]

having horse urine injected into their kidneys.[11]

being deprived of food and water to determine the length of time until death.

being placed into high-pressure chambers until death.

being exposed to extreme temperatures and developed frostbite to determine how long humans could survive with such an affliction, and to determine the effects of rotting and gangrene on human flesh.[11]

having experiments performed upon prisoners to determine the relationship between temperature, burns, and human survival.
being placed into centrifuges and spun until dead.

having animal blood injected and the effects studied.

being exposed to lethal doses of x-ray radiation.

having various chemical weapons tested on prisoners inside gas chambers.

being injected with sea water to determine if it could be a substitute for saline.

being intentionally injected with various sexually transmitted disease bacteria and viruses, such as syphilis, gonorrhea and their effects on human body observed.

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Biological warfare
Japanese scientists performed tests on prisoners with plague, cholera, smallpox, botulism and other diseases.[21] This research led to the development of the defoliation bacilli bomb and the flea bomb used to spread the bubonic plague.[22] Some of these bombs were designed with ceramic (porcelain) shells, an idea proposed by Ishii in 1938.
These bombs enabled Japanese soldiers to launch biological attacks, infecting agriculture, reservoirs, wells, and other areas with anthrax, plague-carrier fleas, typhoid, dysentery, cholera, and other deadly pathogens. During biological bomb experiments, scientists dressed in protective suits would examine the dying victims. Infected food supplies and clothing were dropped by airplane into areas of China not occupied by Japanese forces. In addition, poisoned food and candies were given out to unsuspecting victims and children, and examined.

For more see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

For a complete graphical educational enquiry, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAp8bSdE5MQ

QUOTE (Tamago86 @ Nov 27 2008, 10:15 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

..You're allowed to use wikipedia as a source in your thesis?
Luckyyyy

lol that's what i thought!

very thankful for the black and white photos.

my advice is not to study too much into this past... there were a few historians that were so absorbed into this research and detail that they ended up killing themselves because it was all in their head 24/7.

although the doctors and surgeons had moments of conscience, they all just admitted that they got use to it all. very frightening, but all part of human conditioning, to them, it happened so frequently that it just became normal.

i think this is one of the most horrifying events in history that i know so far, and to see full documents of each testimony just made me sick to my stomach for a good two weeks.

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