WWII Horror: Unit 731 Unit 731 was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during the WW II, commanded until the end of the war by General Shiro Ishii. It was officially known as the Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department of the Kwantung Army. It was responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes carried out by Japanese Experiments Included: - Vivisection without anesthesia Vivisections were performed while the prisoners were alive because it was thought that the decomposition process would affect the results. Men, women, children and infants were subject to this kind of vivisection. - Prisoners had limbs amputated in order to study blood loss. Those limbs that were removed were sometimes re-attached to the opposite sides of the body. - Some prisoners limbs would be frozen and amputated, while other prisoners had limbs frozen and then thawed out to fully study the effects of rotting and possible gangrene. - Some prisoners had their stomachs removed while alive, Parts of the brain, lungs, liver, etc. were removed from some prisoners - Prisoners would be hung upside down to see exactly how long one dies before being choked to death. - Having horse urine injected into prisoners kidneys. - Placed into high-pressure chambers until death; - Prisoners would be exposed to extremely high and low temperatures in order to develop frost bite. Doctors would study how long a human being could survive before rotting and gangrene set in on human flesh. Extreme high temperatures were used to determine the relationship between temperature and human survival. - Exposed to lethal dosages of x-ray radiation. - Burned or buried alive. American grant of immunity:- After Imperial Japan surrendered to the Allies in 1945, General Douglas MacArthur became the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers, rebuilding Japan during the Allied occupation. After discovering the research papers, MacArthur secretly granted immunity to the physicians of Unit 731, including their leader, in exchange for providing America, but not the other wartime allies, with their research on biological warfare and data from human experimentation. #unit-731 #STATW #WWII ..................................................... [ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731 ]
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