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  • WW2 human experiments - Unit 731

    It was a experimental camp in Japan that covered six square kilometers and consisted of more than 150 buildings.
    They did experiments on men , woman , children aswell as infants, amongs others:


    Vivisection

    -Prisoners of war were subjected to vivisection without anesthesia.
    -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 felt that the decomposition process would affect the results.The infected and vivisected prisoners included men, women, children, and infants.
    -Vivisections were also performed on pregnant women, sometimes impregnated by doctors, and the fetus removed.
    -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 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.
    -Parts of the brain, lungs, liver, etc. were removed from some prisoners.

    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.


    Weapons testing

    -Human targets were used to test grenades positioned at various distances and in different positions.
    -Flame throwers were tested on humans.
    -Humans were tied to stakes and used as targets to test germ-releasing bombs, chemical weapons and explosive bombs.


    Germ warfare attacks

    -Prisoners were injected with inoculations of disease, disguised as vaccinations, to study their effects.
    -To study the effects of untreated venereal diseases, male and female prisoners were deliberately infected with syphilis and gonorrhea, then studied.
    -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.
    -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.
    -Tularemia was tested on Chinese civilians.
    -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.


    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.
    -having air injected into their arteries to determine the time until the onset of embolism.
    -having horse urine injected into their kidneys.
    -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.
    -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.

  • #2
    There was a hoopla several years ago when some doctors asked the documents be released. There's a lot of medical resarch there and a lot of data that could not be gotten by any other means. The argument was to let use the data for good now that it has been gotten.

    The revulsion by all shot that request down.

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    • #3
      Some of the data used for example how long a person can survive in the open ocean are based on similar (criminal) "test" conducted by the nazis or how much your skin can be destroyed (fire) and how it chances your changes of survival etc.

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      • #4
        Interesting information Officer , I did not hear about that event.

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        • #5
          Douglas MacArthur appears in a couple of the ongoing threads at the moment, Sinister, and there is of course a connection to yours ...

          'Big Mac' normally gets a lot of credit for his role as the first Allied administrator of Japan. But he was also quite selective in which Japanese war criminals got prosecuted.

          Controversially, Japan's greatest general (and by coincidence his old Phillipines sparring partner) Tomoyuki Yamashita was hanged, but the Emperor, and Dr Ishii Shiro, who was the prime mover behind the wicked Unit 731, were never brought to account.
          Last edited by clackers; 31 May 08,, 15:44.

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          • #6
            If you want to study the horrors of Unit 731 even further, check out the Japanese movie 'Men Behind the Sun'. Standard Asian gore but really sinister because the events actually took place.

            It's famous for the scene where they drop a living cat into a room filled with a thousand rats. Disturbing.
            Walk like a priest.

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            • #7
              The thing that interests me about those events on an intellectual perspective is to ask the motives behind those experiments. How many of those are conducted for scientific and practical value, and how many for sport and sadism? Some of the experiments the Nazis did the in the camps seemed to have no purpose or practical at all, as well as some others in 731, but there are others that, as OoE stated, actually obtained valuable information.

              Any thoughts on those?
              All those who are merciful with the cruel will come to be cruel to the merciful.
              -Talmud Kohelet Rabbah, 7:16.

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              • #8
                triple C,

                i'd say given the response of dr yuasa above, the majority were "practical" experiments, although the sheer savagery would probably have been enough to placate the most sadistic individual.
                There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."- Isaac Asimov

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                • #9
                  I think this is a worthy philosophical debate. Should we put those data to good use?

                  On the one hand, those are blood data. Gathered with extreme pain and suffereing and inhuman treatment of the subjects involved. To use them is like using drug money to fund school lunches. Even worse.

                  On the other hand, these are invaluable scientific data impossible to gather under any normal circumstances. They are rarer than once in a lifetime opportunity. So rare in fact we probably won't see something like this ever again. The subjects are long dead. Nothing we do can bring them back. We should not let their death be in vain.

                  Is it right for the human race to benefit from such barbarism? Is it right to let their sacrifices be in vain?
                  "Only Nixon can go to China." -- Old Vulcan proverb.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by clackers View Post
                    Douglas MacArthur appears in a couple of the ongoing threads at the moment, Sinister, and there is of course a connection to yours ...

                    'Big Mac' normally gets a lot of credit for his role as the first Allied administrator of Japan. But he was also quite selective in which Japanese war criminals got prosecuted.

                    Controversially, Japan's greatest general (and by coincidence his old Phillipines sparring partner) Tomoyuki Yamashita was hanged, but the Emperor, and Dr Ishii Shiro, who was the prime mover behind the wicked Unit 731, were never brought to account.
                    OT

                    Heh, do you think if mac had won the nomination and presidency he would have gotten after Truman for dereliction of duty with the post WW2 draw down? Yamashita was after all hanged for nothing more than not being able to control junior officers and thus stop the battle of Manila.

                    back on topic, as good as the research might be, one can argue that it is so tainted as to be unusable, that seems to be the current consensus. However, it should be reviewed to see if the information is so valuable that it will in fact stand as a memorial to the victims to the benefit of all mankind.

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                    • #11
                      zraver,

                      Yamashita was after all hanged for nothing more than not being able to control junior officers and thus stop the battle of Manila.
                      you mean he was hanged for embarrassing old Mac and generally out-generalling him. :))

                      it's really too bad they hung that guy when so many worse bastards got away scot free.
                      There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."- Isaac Asimov

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by astralis View Post
                        zraver,



                        you mean he was hanged for embarrassing old Mac and generally out-generalling him. :))

                        it's really too bad they hung that guy when so many worse bastards got away scot free.
                        yup, thats what I meant.

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                        • #13
                          Yes, Zraver and Astralis, he also went after the guy who had defeated him in the Phillipines in the first place. :-)

                          Masaharu Homma, the 'Beast of Bataan', was also nicknamed the 'Poet General' and actually a guy so 'liberal' in areas such as treatment of Americans and Filipinos he was sacked by the Army after his victory, and lived back in Japan until the war's end in forced retirement.

                          Similar to Yamashita, Big Mac had him put on charges for war crimes against prisoners that had occurred without his orders.

                          There's a film being made about his trial with ... (gulp!) ... Star Wars' Hayden Christensen playing the young American lawyer who defended him.
                          Last edited by clackers; 25 Jun 08,, 08:22.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Sinister View Post
                            It was a experimental camp in Japan that covered six square kilometers and consisted of more than 150 buildings.
                            They did experiments on men , woman , children aswell as infants, amongs others:


                            Vivisection

                            -Prisoners of war were subjected to vivisection without anesthesia.
                            -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 felt that the decomposition process would affect the results.The infected and vivisected prisoners included men, women, children, and infants.
                            -Vivisections were also performed on pregnant women, sometimes impregnated by doctors, and the fetus removed.
                            -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 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.
                            -Parts of the brain, lungs, liver, etc. were removed from some prisoners.

                            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.


                            Weapons testing

                            -Human targets were used to test grenades positioned at various distances and in different positions.
                            -Flame throwers were tested on humans.
                            -Humans were tied to stakes and used as targets to test germ-releasing bombs, chemical weapons and explosive bombs.


                            Germ warfare attacks

                            -Prisoners were injected with inoculations of disease, disguised as vaccinations, to study their effects.
                            -To study the effects of untreated venereal diseases, male and female prisoners were deliberately infected with syphilis and gonorrhea, then studied.
                            -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.
                            -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.
                            -Tularemia was tested on Chinese civilians.
                            -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.


                            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.
                            -having air injected into their arteries to determine the time until the onset of embolism.
                            -having horse urine injected into their kidneys.
                            -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.
                            -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.
                            I just posted the video on 731. I should issue a graphic warning here

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by navy namvet View Post
                              I just posted the video on 731. I should issue a graphic warning here

                              I don't see anything

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