Unit 731
Unit 731 was a unit stationed in Pingfang, China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It researched chemical and biological warfare, though it also performed a massive number of human experiments.
The above picture depicts a vivisection on a Chinese man, done without anesthetic. The man was infected with the plague beforehand, the vivisection done to see what the plague did to the human body.
Vivisection of a pregnant girl raped and impregnated by the doctor operating on her.
Several dead bodies being piled up to be disposed of after being experimented on.
A child vivisected by a doctor.
General Shiro Ishii, the senior army surgeon of Unit 731. During his time in Pingfang, China, he performed a massive variety of experiments, including testing out a number of diseases on prisoners and freezing a prisoner's limbs and thawing it to figure out ways to treat frostbite.
In return for the data he gained from his horrific experiments, General Shiro Ishii received full immunity from his war crimes by the Americans. The Soviet authorities desired that he be prosecuted, but the United States objected after US biologists sent reports. Shiro Ishii thus was never punished for his human experiments.
Douglas MacArthur was one of the men who supported this, even saying that additional data could be gained by informing Japanese in the unit that it would not be used as evidence for war crimes.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shir%C5%8D_Ishii
www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/07/wwii-horror-files-unit-731/
www.toddlertime.com/bobbystringer/unit-731.htm
www.mtholyoke.edu/~kann20c/classweb/dw2/page1.html
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