Unit 731: Horrible Experiments

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Every country has its dark moment in its history. For the US and Russia it was during the cold war fighting for the Nazi scientists, and performing all kinds of terrifying experiments. Germany had the Hitler Nazis’ and the Third Reich. England and France had the dark ages using the guillotine to murder and behead thousands of people whether guilty or innocent. For Japan their dark and twisted time was during WWII. The Unit 731 operation was a dark act that happened during a dark time in Japanese history in which they conducted cruel experiments testing human limits. Most of us know of the horrible experiments that the Nazis performed on the Jews during the holocaust. However, very few of us know about the experiments that Unit 731, a Japanese …show more content…

the ones mentioned are the well-known ones but there were many more and they even mixed some to create a new pathogen to help win the war. During the experimentation of these diseases some of 3000 victims died and only 277 are known thanks to doctors that have become public about the events in the facility (Unit 731, 100 etc. - Inhuman WMD Biological Warfare). "The fellow knew that it was over for him, and so he didn't struggle." recalled the old former medical assistant of a Japanese Army unit in China in World War II, "But when I picked up the scalpel that's when he began screaming. I cut him open from the chest to the stomach, and he screamed terribly, and his face was all twisted in agony. He made this unimaginable sound, he was screaming so horribly. But then finally he stopped." The former medical assistant who insisted on anonymity, explained the reason for the vivisection. The Chinese prisoner had been deliberately infected with the plague as part of a research project (Unit 731, 100 etc. – inhuman WMD Biological Warfare). They cut a man open alive just for results on how the plague that they infected him with effected his body and innards. After infecting the logs researchers would cut them open and examine each and every organ, one by one while the subject was still alive and screaming. Once done with experimenting on the subjects they would kill them. The subjects would often go long periods of time without food or water or sometimes one without the other to discover how long one could last before dying, one conclusion was that if a human being went a full week without water then he would go insane but with only water a human being can last between fifty to sixty days according to Toshimo Mizobuchi. To see just how much the body of a human could take a subject would be placed into a

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