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Explanation: Unit 731 was an infamous Japanese torture unit during WW2 which undertook horrific experiments primarily on Chinese prisoners and civilians. Their results, which were often performed using substandard scientific methodology and record-keeping, often amounted to such stunning conclusions as “If you amputate all of someone’s limbs without anesthesia, they usually die”.
There was, supposedly, some useful data in more rigorously conducted experiments on frostbite and tuberculosis, but for obvious reasons, there are ethical considerations to the release of that data.
Just in case anyone hasn’t already, don’t read the Wikipedia article unless you are strong stomached. There are multiple excerpts of journals in there detailing some pretty gross details.
Worth noting however that according to the wiki multiple higher up officers were pardoned or had heavily reduced sentences by the allied forces in exchange for information and data of the experiments that took place there.
Worth noting however that according to the wiki multiple higher up officers were pardoned or had heavily reduced sentences by the allied forces in exchange for information and data of the experiments that took place there.
Yep. Almost all of it worthless, too. Not only did we let those fucking war criminals go, we did so for nothing.
Yup, the USA pardoned the Nazis as well and integrated them into society via the witness protection program. Wouldn’t put it past them to have done the same with these ones too.
Germany: we learned from our mistakes and we are sorry and regret it deeply.
Japan PM.
Also Japan PM: *gets shot in the face by a blunderbuss held together with duct tape*
