Prisoners Of War Research Paper

You’ve just been captured during World War II. You are taken prisoner. You’d probably rather die than face the consequences of being a prisoner of war. The Axis Powers were already known for the terrible things they did, but most people didn’t know the demented things they did to Prisoners of War (POWs).
To start with, some prisoners of war were used as medical experiments. University doctors injected one anesthetized prisoner with seawater to see if it worked as a substitute for a sterile saline solution. Other airmen had parts of their organs removed, with one deprived of an entire lung to gauge the effects of surgery on the respiratory system. In another experiment, doctors drilled through the skull of a live prisoner, apparently to determine if epilepsy could be treated by removal of part

of the brain. It is said that the medical experiments were not used primarily for medical reasons, but used for ensuring a cruel death (Japan revisits its darkest moments where American POWs became human experiments).
With that in mind, POWs were also subjected to other cruel mistreatment such as the fact that prisoners were taken outside and tied to stakes.

The Japanese would then test new biological weapons such as plague cultures or bombs filled with plague-infested fleas on them. Other studies involved exposing human guinea pigs, called ‘logs’ by the Japanese scientists to their limits. Humans were locked inside pressure chambers to test how much the body could take before their eyes popped out (Experiments). They were also subject to unheated cells in cold winters.
(Experiments)

“It's not unreal to me yet, though it might get that way soon. It still feels very real. And not even horrible -- the dead are just the dead. I am convinced that the living people they once were would have been proud of their protective bodies hoodwinking their murderers to save someone else. But it's not civilized. There is something indecent about it -- really foully indecent. The civilized Rose-person in me, who still seems to exist beneath the layers of filth, knows this.
I have become so indifferent about the dead.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Rose Under Fire ( Quotes About Prisoner Of

War)

“War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words ( Quotes About Prisoner Of War)

Furthermore, by the end of 1958, all Japanese war criminals had been released and began reinventing themselves, some as mainstream politicians under their new US-authored constitution. Of the 30 Kyushu University doctors and military staff who stood trial in 1948, 23 were convicted of vivisection and the wrongful removal of body parts. Five were sentenced to death and another four to life imprisonment. But they were never punished. (Japan revisits its darkest moments where American POWs became human experiments)
In conclusion, what POWs faced was terrible. They went through many hardships. Terrible things were done to them. It was a horrific event that should never be repeated.