2024-04-29 11:26:09
TokyoMany inhumane incidents were reported during the Second World War, but Japan’s ‘Unit 731’ committed the most infamous war crimes the world has ever seen. The S Unit of the Japanese Army killed more than two lakh people during World War II. This unit conducted inhumane tests and experiments on Chinese, Korean, Russian and American prisoners, brutally torturing and killing not only men but also women and children. This unit didn’t just shoot people outright. They killed people by torturing them by injecting them and then cut them into pieces in the name of weapons testing. Women were raped and killed.
One of Unit 731’s gruesome practices was the frostbite test, which involved submerging detainees’ limbs in tubs filled with ice, The Sun reports. The prisoner’s hands and feet were held in ice until they were frozen solid and a layer of ice formed on the skin. Unit 731 did not stop at freezing the bodies of prisoners. Inhumane experiments were also conducted to re-warm the bodies of frozen prisoners. The frozen body parts were immersed in hot water or kept near an open fire. Many times they were left outside overnight to see how long it took for their frozen blood to melt. The frostbite test was one of many horrific torture techniques used by Japan’s Unit 731.
used to infect lives
This unit used deadly germs to exterminate the Chinese population. This was, in a way, the experiment of germs on the human body. Doctors monitored symptoms after the germs entered the body. Due to this, when people fell most ill, they were bled to death on the mortuary table. When a sick person was about to die, an officer wearing leather boots would climb onto the table and jump on the victim’s chest with such force that his ribs were crushed. His blood was used to infect other prisoners.
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The hair-raising experiments included killing people inside rotating centrifuges, injecting them with the blood of diseased animals. Unit 731 also used to test weapons on people. People were tied up and targeted with guns. The tied people could not be attacked even with knives and bayonets. Unit 731 is believed to have killed between two and three lakh people. A ‘scary bunker’ from World War II was discovered near the city of Anda in northeastern China. It is considered to be the largest ‘test site’ of Unit 731. Archaeologists discovered numerous skeletons in Heilongjiang province, testifying to Unit 731’s brutality.