Japan 731. “Even Below Beasts”

Japan. Factory of death. Unit 731

“Detachment 731” is a special detachment of the Japanese armed forces, engaged in research in the field of biological weapons and the goal of establishing the amount of time that a person can live under the influence of various factors (boiling water, drying, food deprivation, water deprivation, freezing, electric shock, vivisection of people, etc. .). The victims were included in the detachment along with family members (including wives and children).

According to testimony at the trial in Khabarovsk by the commander of the Kwantung Army, General Otsuzo Yamada, “Detachment 731” was organized to prepare bacteriological warfare, mainly against the Soviet Union, but also against the Mongolian People’s Republic, China and other states. The judicial investigation also proved that in “Detachment 731”, other, no less cruel and painful experiments that were not directly related to the preparation of bacteriological warfare.

Some of the unit's military doctors subsequently became famous surgeons, performing unique operations thanks to the experience gained in Unit 731. Perhaps the most typical experience of this kind can be called the autopsy of a living person. All vital organs were gradually removed from the experimental subjects under anesthesia or local anesthesia, one by one, starting from the peritoneum and chest and ending with the brain. Still living organs, called “preparations,” were sent for further research to different departments of the detachment.

The endurance limits of the human body were studied under certain conditions - for example, at high altitudes or at low temperatures. To do this, people were placed in pressure chambers, recording the agony on film, their limbs were frozen and the onset of gangrene was observed. If a prisoner, despite being infected with deadly bacteria, recovered, this did not save him from repeated experiments, which continued until death occurred. The “prototypes” never left the laboratory alive.

“I recently came across the film “The Philosophy of the Knife,” about the so-called Unit 731, which operated in China during the Second World War. The squad conducted experiments on people in search of biological weapons

The detachment was stationed in 1936 near the village of Pingfang, southeast of Harbin (at that time the territory of the puppet state of Manchukuo). It was located on an area of ​​six square kilometers in almost 150 buildings. For the entire surrounding world, this was the Main Directorate for Water Supply and Prevention of the Kwantung Army units. “Detachment 731” had everything for an autonomous existence: two power plants, artesian wells, an airfield, and a railway line. They even had their own fighter aircraft, which was supposed to shoot down all air targets (even Japanese ones) that flew over the detachment’s territory without permission.

The detachment included graduates of the most prestigious Japanese universities, the flower of Japanese science.

Among the “logs” there were a lot of our compatriots - white emigrants who lived in Harbin. When the supply of “experimental subjects” in the detachment was running out, Dr. Ishii turned to the local authorities with a request for a new batch. If they did not have prisoners of war on hand, Japanese intelligence services carried out raids on the nearest Chinese settlements, driving captured civilians to the “water treatment plant.”

The first thing they did with the newcomers was fatten them up. The "logs" had three meals a day and even sometimes desserts with fruit. The experimental material had to be absolutely healthy so as not to violate the purity of the experiment. According to the instructions, any member of the detachment who dared to call a “log” a person was severely punished.

“We believed that “logs” are not people, that they are even lower than cattle. However, among the scientists and researchers working in the detachment there was no one who had any sympathy for the “logs”. Everyone - both military personnel and civilian detachments - believed that the destruction of “logs” was a completely natural thing,” said one of the employees.

“They were logs to me. Logs cannot be considered as people. The logs are already dead on their own. Now they were dying for the second time, and we were only carrying out the death sentence,” said Unit 731 training specialist Toshimi Mizobuchi.

The specialized experiments that were carried out on experimental subjects were tests of the effectiveness of various strains of diseases. Ishii’s “favorite” was the plague. Towards the end of the war, he developed a strain of plague bacterium that was 60 times more virulent than the usual one. These bacteria were stored dry, and immediately before use it was only necessary to moisten them with water and a small amount of nutrient solution.

Experiments to remove these bacteria were carried out on people.

For example, in the detachment there were special cells where people were locked. The cages were so small that the prisoners could not move. They were infected with some kind of infection, and then they were observed for days to see changes in the state of the body. There were also larger cells. The sick and healthy were driven there at the same time in order to track how quickly the disease was transmitted from person to person. But no matter how he was infected, no matter how much he was observed, the end was the same - the person was dissected alive, taking out his organs and watching how the disease spread inside.

People were kept alive and not stitched up for days, so that doctors could observe the process without bothering themselves with a new autopsy. In this case, no anesthesia was usually used - doctors were afraid that it could disrupt the natural course of the experiment.

Those who were tested not with bacteria, but with gases were more “lucky”. They died faster. “All the experimental subjects who died from hydrogen cyanide had purple-red faces,” said one of the detachment employees. - Those who died from mustard gas had their whole body burned so that it was impossible to look at the corpse. Our experiments have shown that a person's endurance is approximately equal to that of a pigeon. Under the conditions in which the pigeon died, the experimental subject also died.”

Biological weapons tests were not limited to Pingfan. In addition to the main building itself, “Detachment 731” had four branches located along the Soviet-Chinese border, and one test site-airfield in Anda. Prisoners were taken there to practice the effectiveness of using bacteriological bombs on them. They were tied to special poles or crosses driven in concentric circles around a point, where ceramic bombs filled with plague fleas were then dropped. To prevent the experimental subjects from accidentally dying from bomb fragments, they were wearing iron helmets and shields. Sometimes, however, the buttocks were left bare when, instead of “flea bombs,” bombs filled with special metal shrapnel with a helical protrusion on which bacteria were applied were used. The scientists themselves stood at a distance of three kilometers and watched the experimental subjects through binoculars. Then the people were taken back to the facility and there, like all similar experimental subjects, they were cut open alive in order to observe how the infection went.

However, once such an experiment, conducted on 40 experimental subjects, did not end as the Japanese planned. One of the Chinese managed to somehow loosen his bonds and jump off the cross. He did not run away, but immediately unraveled his closest comrade. They then rushed to free the others. Only after all 40 people were untangled did everyone scatter.

The Japanese experimenters, who saw what was happening through binoculars, were in a panic. If even one test subject escaped, the top-secret program would be in jeopardy. Only one of the guards remained calm. He got into the car, rushed across those running and began to crush them. The Anda training ground was a huge field where there was not a single tree for 10 kilometers. Therefore, most of the prisoners were crushed, and some were even taken alive.

After “laboratory” tests in the detachment and at the training ground, the researchers of “detachment 731” carried out field tests. Ceramic bombs filled with plague fleas were dropped from an airplane over Chinese cities and villages, and plague flies were released. In his book The Death Factory, California State University historian Sheldon Harris claims that plague bombs killed more than 200,000 people.

The achievements of the detachment were widely used to fight Chinese partisans. For example, strains of typhoid fever contaminated wells and reservoirs in places controlled by the partisans. However, they soon abandoned this: their own troops often came under attack.

However, the Japanese military had already become convinced of the effectiveness of the work of “Detachment 731” and began to develop plans for the use of bacteriological weapons against the USA and the USSR. There were no problems with ammunition: according to the stories of the employees, by the end of the war, so many bacteria had accumulated in the storerooms of “detachment 731” that if they had been scattered across the globe under ideal conditions, this would have been enough to destroy all of humanity. But the Japanese establishment lacked political will - or maybe it lacked sobriety...

Despite Tojo's opposition, the Japanese command in 1945 developed the plan for Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night until the very end. According to the plan, several submarines were supposed to approach the American coast and release planes there, which were supposed to spray plague-infected flies over San Diego. Fortunately, by that time Japan had a maximum of five submarines, each of which could carry two or three special aircraft. And the leadership of the fleet refused to provide them for the operation, citing the fact that all forces needed to be concentrated on protecting the mother country.

To this day, members of Unit 731 maintain that testing biological weapons on living people was justified. “There is no guarantee that something like this will never happen again,” one of the members of this detachment, who celebrated his old age in a Japanese village, said with a smile in an interview with the New York Times. “Because in war you always have to win.”

But the fact is that the most terrible experiments carried out on people in Ishii’s detachment had nothing to do with biological weapons. Particularly inhumane experiments were carried out in the most secret rooms of the detachment, where most of the service personnel did not even have access. They had exclusively medical purposes. Japanese scientists wanted to know the endurance limits of the human body.

Working hours in detachment 731

Among these experimental subjects was a three-day-old child: so that he would not clench his hand into a fist and not violate the purity of the experiment, a needle was stuck into his middle finger.

Experiments were carried out in pressure chambers for the Imperial Air Force. “They placed a test subject in a vacuum pressure chamber and began to gradually pump out the air,” recalled one of the squad’s trainees. - As the difference between the external pressure and the pressure in the internal organs increased, his eyes first bulged out, then his face swelled to the size of a large ball, the blood vessels swelled like snakes, and his intestines began to crawl out, as if alive. Finally the man just exploded alive.” This is how Japanese doctors determined the permissible altitude ceiling for their pilots.

In addition, to find out the fastest and most effective way to treat combat wounds, people were blown up with grenades, shot, burned with flamethrowers...

There were also experiments just for curiosity. Individual organs were cut out from the living body of the experimental subjects; they cut off the arms and legs and sewed them back, swapping the right and left limbs; they poured the blood of horses or monkeys into the human body; exposed to powerful X-ray radiation; left without food or water; scalded various parts of the body with boiling water; tested for sensitivity to electric current. Curious scientists filled a person's lungs with large amounts of smoke or gas, and introduced rotting pieces of tissue into the stomach of a living person.

However, such “useless” experiments yielded practical results. For example, this is how the conclusion emerged that a person is 78% water. To understand this, scientists first weighed the captive and then placed him in a hot room with minimal humidity. The man sweated profusely, but was not given water. Eventually it dried out completely. The body was then weighed, and it was found to weigh about 22% of its original mass.

Frostbite and burn research workshop

Finally, Japanese surgeons simply trained their skills by training on “logs.” One example of such “training” is described in the book “The Devil’s Kitchen,” written by the most famous researcher of “Unit 731” Seiichi Morimura.

“In 1943, a Chinese boy was brought to the section room. According to the employees, he was not one of the “logs”, he was simply kidnapped somewhere and brought to the detachment, but nothing was known for sure. The boy undressed as he was ordered and lay down on the table with his back. A mask containing chloroform was immediately placed on his face. When the anesthesia finally took effect, the boy’s entire body was wiped with alcohol. One of the experienced members of Tanabe's group standing around the table took a scalpel and approached the boy. He plunged a scalpel into the chest and made a Y-shaped incision. The white fat layer was exposed. In the place where Kocher clamps were immediately applied, blood bubbles boiled.

The live dissection began. From the boy’s body, the staff, with deft, trained hands, removed the internal organs one by one: stomach, liver, kidneys, pancreas, intestines. They were dismantled and thrown into buckets that stood there, and from the buckets they were immediately transferred into glass vessels filled with formaldehyde, which were closed with lids. The removed organs in formaldehyde solution continued to contract. After the internal organs were removed, only the boy's head remained intact.

Small, short-cropped head. One of Minato's team secured her to the operating table. Then, with a scalpel, he made an incision from the ear to the nose. When the skin was removed from the head, a saw was used. A triangular hole was made in the skull, exposing the brain. The detachment officer took it with his hand and quickly lowered it into a vessel with formaldehyde. On the operating table there was something left that resembled the boy’s body - a devastated body and limbs.”

All experiments were carefully documented. In addition to piles of papers and protocols, the detachment had about 20 film and photographic cameras. “Dozens and hundreds of times we drilled it into our heads that the experimental subjects were not people, but just material, and still, during live autopsies, my head became confused,” said one of the operators. “The nerves of a normal person could not stand it.”

Some experiments were recorded on paper by the artist. At that time, only black and white photography existed, and it could not reflect, for example, the change in color of fabric due to frostbite...

According to the recollections of the employees of “detachment 731”, during its existence, about three thousand people died within the walls of the laboratories. But some researchers argue that the real victims were much higher.

The Soviet Union put an end to the existence of Unit 731. On August 9, Soviet troops launched an offensive against the Japanese army, and the "detachment" was ordered to "act at its own discretion." Evacuation work began on the night of August 10-11. The most important materials - descriptions of the use of bacteriological weapons in China, piles of autopsy reports, descriptions of etiology and pathogenesis, descriptions of the process of cultivating bacteria - were burned in specially dug pits.

It was decided to destroy the “logs” that were still alive at that time. Some people were gassed, and some were nobly allowed to commit suicide. The corpses were thrown into a pit and burned. The first time the squad members “cheated” - the corpses were not completely burned, and they were simply covered with earth. Having found out about this, the authorities, despite the rush to evacuate, ordered the corpses to be dug up and the work done “as it should.” After the second attempt, the ashes and bones were thrown into the Songhua River.

The exhibits of the “exhibition room” were also thrown there - a huge hall where cut off human organs, limbs, heads cut in various ways, and dissected bodies were stored in flasks filled with a special solution. Some of these exhibits were contaminated and demonstrated various stages of damage to organs and parts of the human body. The exhibition room could become the most clear evidence of the inhuman nature of “Detachment 731.” “It is unacceptable that even one of these drugs falls into the hands of the advancing Soviet troops,” the detachment’s leadership told their subordinates.

But some of the most important materials were preserved. They were taken out by Shiro Ishii and some other leaders of the detachment, handing it all over to the Americans - as a kind of ransom for their freedom. For the United States, this information was of extreme importance.

The Americans began their biological weapons development program only in 1943, and the results of the “field experiments” of their Japanese counterparts came in handy.

“Currently, Ishii’s group, working closely with the United States, is preparing a large amount of materials for us and has agreed to provide us with eight thousand slides depicting animals and people subjected to bacteriological experiments,” said a special memorandum distributed among selected individuals State Department and the Pentagon. “This is extremely important for the security of our country, and the value of this is significantly higher than what we would achieve by initiating a judicial investigation of war crimes ... Due to the extreme importance of information about biological weapons of the Japanese army, the US government decides not to charge any member of the detachment with war crimes on the preparation of bacteriological warfare of the Japanese army."

Below left is a diagram of fixing Chinese experimental subjects for dropping bombs with bacteriological weapons - plague fleas

Therefore, in response to a request from the Soviet side for the extradition and punishment of members of the detachment, a conclusion was sent to Moscow that “the location of the leadership of “detachment 731,” including Ishii, is unknown and there is no reason to accuse the detachment of war crimes.”

Prince Takeda (Emperor Hirohito's cousin), who inspected the "squad", was also not punished and even headed the Japanese Olympic Committee on the eve of the 1964 Games. And the evil genius of the squad himself, Shiro Ishii, lived comfortably in Japan and died of cancer in 1959.

People with weak hearts and fragile psyches are strongly advised not to watch the film “The Philosophy of the Knife”!!!”

Especially remember this: “...the Japanese military was already convinced of the effectiveness of the work of “detachment 731” and began to develop plans for the use of bacteriological weapons against the USA and the USSR...

In July 1944, only the attitude of Prime Minister Tojo saved the United States from disaster. The Japanese planned to use balloons to transport strains of various viruses to American territory - from those fatal to humans to those that would destroy livestock and crops. Tojo understood that Japan was already clearly losing the war and that if attacked with biological weapons, America could respond in kind.

The author who wrote that it was as if “Tojo understood that Japan was clearly losing the war and if attacked with biological weapons, America could respond in kind, because, they say, the Japanese did not hit the USA with bactiorolic weapons, is this guy just a fool or the Japanese are giving him credit for these words paid well. The samurai believed until the last second that they would win.

But they didn’t hit the USA with bacteriological bombs: firstly, there was no reliable delivery of bombs - the balloons could very well fly in a completely different direction, and secondly, the Japanese did not have enough biological bombs so that after the attack on the USA, the Americans could not have responded to any retaliatory strike, with any weapon, and the Americans did not have biological weapons of the same quality as the Japanese had, they had them in scanty quantities and were very weak in destructive power in comparison with the Japanese. And the Americans hit the cannibals with what they had at hand at that time.

Let's remember!

And the Japanese attack on peacefully standing American ships in Pearl Harbor, and their complete destruction, and how the Japanese cut out the liver of almost every American prisoner of war and ate it right there...

The atomic bombing of Japan, their use of weapons of mass destruction, the Americans were only ahead of the Japanese in their attack on the United States with weapons of mass destruction - bacteriological, not atomic, but alternative - bacteriological bombs. So, perhaps, at the last moment, the Americans managed to escape the terrible and inevitable death from the Japanese. And they saved us all, all of humanity. After all, Hitler was just a few weeks short of receiving the “weapon of retaliation.”

We make politics out of everything. The Japanese don’t make politics out of anything like that.

“The attitude of the opposition to the actions of the cabinet shows: in Japan it is not customary to earn political points from a tragedy... This is what it is, the democracy of the Japanese assembly,” reports the very informed Kommersant, or at least pretends to be super informed.

For the Japanese, we are all “logs” that must be destroyed, and the Japanese work together for this, like ants. And it's all politics.

Another article about detachment 731 on our website:

How will the human body react if horse urine is injected into the kidneys? What happens if you replace human blood with the blood of monkeys or horses? And what changes will occur if rotting tissue is introduced into the stomach of a living person? After the “experiments” were completed, the victim was sent for an autopsy...

On June 13, 1938, 20 kilometers south of the city of Harbin (China), the Japanese occupation army began construction of a top-secret military facility - a scientific laboratory, in which terrible experiments on people would then be carried out.

Ominous construction site

For almost 40 sq. km of territory surrounded by a ditch and a fence with electrified barbed wire, first of all an airfield appeared, then a power station and a railway line. Living quarters for approximately 3 thousand people, training center premises, a prison for 100 people, numerous laboratories, a stadium and even a Shinto shrine were built. Construction took more than a year. The secrecy of the facility was so high that fighters based at the airfield were ordered to “shoot down any aircraft, even those belonging to their own army, that flew over the territory without permission.”

Upon completion of construction, a group of Japanese army personnel known as “Manchurian Detachment 731” moved into the premises. True, the detachment received this name only in 1941; at first it existed under the name “Kamo detachment,” but this does not change the essence of the matter. Lieutenant General Shiro Ishii took command.

The detachment was divided into several departments, which in turn consisted of two dozen operational research groups. What did these groups do? What were they going to study in the brand new laboratories equipped with the latest technology of that time?

The answer to this question will be given by the names of the groups. So, the departments included research groups: plague, cholera, anthrax, typhoid, tuberculosis. There were groups involved in growing bacteria, and a special unit was tasked with the development and production of ceramic bombs. By 1945, the 731 infections grown by Detachment 731 would be enough to destroy the entire population of the globe. Japan was actively preparing for world bacteriological warfare.

"Inhumans"

Undoubtedly, experimental material is needed for such studies. At the request of the laboratory staff, they were carefully supplied with mice, rats and guinea pigs. They were treated with care - the rodents were kept in good conditions and spent very sparingly. But in addition to the animals, another experimental “material” was actively supplied to the detachment. The economy regime did not apply to him. In the professional jargon of the squad members, this “material” was called “logs.”

“Logs” are captured Russian and Chinese soldiers, Chinese journalists, scientists, workers, and members of their families; just women captured on the street - Russians and Chinese. There were also children among the test subjects. The Logs didn't need human names. All prisoners of the detachment were given three-digit numbers, according to which they were distributed among operational research groups as material for experiments.

“We believed that “logs” are not people, that they are even lower than cattle. However, among the scientists and researchers working in the detachment there was no one who had any sympathy for the “logs”. Everyone believed that the destruction of “logs” was a completely natural thing,” said one of the employees of “detachment 731.”

The specialized experiments that were carried out on experimental subjects were tests of the effectiveness of various strains of diseases. Ishii’s “favorite” was the plague. Towards the end of World War II, he developed a strain of plague bacteria that was 60 times more virulent (the ability to infect the body) than the normal one.

Upon arrival at the detachment, all torture and cruel treatment to which the prisoners had previously been subjected stopped. They were kept in prison, but were not interrogated or forced to do hard work. Moreover, they were well fed: the “logs” received three full meals a day, fruits and vitamins, and slept a lot. They were required to be physically healthy. But from the moment the prisoner regained his strength, hell began for him, ending in painful death.

Brutal experiments

When it was their turn to become experimental subjects, people were inoculated with plague, cholera, typhoid, dysentery, syphilis and other cultures of living bacteria. They were introduced into the body with food or in some other way. Sometimes, having infected one prisoner, they released him into a common cell to trace the spread of the disease. Some of the “logs” were subjected to active treatment, and blood and internal organs were taken from those who were able to survive for subsequent experiments. The blood was completely sucked out of the person using a special pump.

In addition, experiments were conducted on frostbite of human tissue. The “experimenters” forced people to put their hands and feet in barrels of ice water and took them out into the cold, and the temperature in winter in those parts drops to -40 degrees. The process of frostbite developed literally before our eyes. The skin of the test subjects first turned white, then turned red, then turned purple and became covered with blisters. After this, it turned purple-black and, finally, when complete frostbite set in, it turned black. The skin and muscles hardened, paralysis of the limbs occurred. To find out whether complete frostbite had occurred, the “experimenters” beat the experimental subjects’ arms and legs with sticks. There was a sound like someone hitting a dry board.

Other experiments were carried out within the walls of the hellish laboratories. It was found out what processes would occur in the human body if air was introduced into his veins. It is known that this will result in death. But the squad members were interested in the processes occurring before the onset of convulsions. How long will it take to die if the “log” is hung upside down? What changes occur in different parts of the body? The following experiments were also carried out: the victim was placed in a large centrifuge and rotated at high speed until death occurred. It was tested how the human body would react if horse urine or blood was injected into the kidneys.

Experiments were conducted to replace human blood with the blood of monkeys or horses. It was found out how much blood could be pumped out of one “log”. And what will happen if a person’s lungs are filled with a large amount of smoke or poisonous gas. It was studied what changes would occur if rotting tissue was introduced into the stomach of a living person. After the “experiments” were completed, the victim was sent to the laboratory for an autopsy.

In general, autopsy of a living person was a constant practice in Detachment 731. This was an ideal way to observe changes occurring in living tissue. And the organs obtained in this way were preserved in jars filled with formaldehyde.

The detachment had special cages (where people were locked) - they were so small that the prisoners could not move in them. People were infected with an infection, and then observed for days to see changes in the condition of their body. They were then dissected alive, removing their organs and watching the disease spread inside. People were kept alive and not stitched up for days, so that doctors could observe the process without bothering themselves with a new autopsy. In this case, no anesthesia was usually used - doctors were afraid that it could disrupt the natural course of the experiment.

Those of the victims of the “experimenters” who were tested not with bacteria, but with gases were more “lucky”: they died faster. “All the experimental subjects who died from hydrogen cyanide had purple-red faces,” said one of the employees of Unit 731. - Those who died from mustard gas had their whole body burned so that it was impossible to look at the corpse. Our experiments have shown that a person's endurance is approximately equal to that of a pigeon. Under the conditions in which the pigeon died, the experimental subject also died.”

Museum of Pain

Among the laboratories there was a so-called “exhibition room”, where what was left of the unfortunate victims was placed. A terrible sight awaited everyone who entered there. On shelves located in two or three rows along the walls were glass vessels filled with formaldehyde. They contained the heads of people of different races, men and women, old and young. Some are cut into two parts from the crown to the ear; others are sawn apart, with the brain exposed. There were heads with decomposed faces on which nothing could be recognized. In addition to the heads, the “exhibition room” contained human legs cut off at the hip, torsos without heads and limbs, stomachs and intestines intricately intertwined in a solution, wombs, some with fetuses.

The consumption of “logs” was great: on average, every two days three people disappeared within the walls of the devil’s laboratories.

During the period from 1940 to 1945, Detachment 731 “used” more than three thousand people.

All corpses were burned and the bones were thrown into a pit, which was called the “bone burial ground.”

122 degrees Fahrenheit

But “Detachment 731” dealt with more than just biological weapons. Japanese scientists also wanted to know the limits of endurance of the human body, for which they conducted terrible medical experiments.

For example, doctors from the Special Forces found that the best way to treat frostbite was not to rub the affected limbs, but to immerse them in water at a temperature of 122 degrees Fahrenheit. Found it out experimentally. “At temperatures below minus 20, experimental people were taken out into the yard at night, forced to put their bare arms or legs in a barrel of cold water, and then placed under an artificial wind until they received frostbite,” said a former special squad employee.

Then they tapped their hands with a small stick until they made a sound like hitting a piece of wood.” Then the frostbitten limbs were placed in water of a certain temperature and, changing it, they observed the death of muscle tissue in the arms. Among these experimental subjects was a three-day-old child: so that he would not clench his hand into a fist and not violate the “purity” of the experiment, a needle was stuck into his middle finger.

Some of the victims of the special squad suffered another terrible fate: they were turned alive into mummies. To do this, people were placed in a hot room with low humidity. The man sweated profusely, but was not allowed to drink until he was completely dry. The body was then weighed, and it was found to weigh about 22% of its original mass. This is exactly how another “discovery” was made in “unit 731”: the human body is 78% water.

Experiments were carried out in pressure chambers for the Imperial Air Force. “They placed a test subject in a vacuum pressure chamber and began to gradually pump out the air,” recalled one of the trainees in Ishii’s squad. - As the difference between the external pressure and the pressure in the internal organs increased, his eyes first bulged out, then his face swelled to the size of a large ball, the blood vessels swelled like snakes, and his intestines began to crawl out, as if alive. Finally, the man simply exploded alive.” This is how Japanese doctors determined the permissible altitude ceiling for their pilots.

There were also experiments just for “curiosity”. Individual organs were cut out from the living body of the experimental subjects; they cut off the arms and legs and sewed them back, swapping the right and left limbs; they poured the blood of horses or monkeys into the human body; exposed to powerful X-ray radiation; scalded various parts of the body with boiling water; tested for sensitivity to electric current. Curious scientists filled a person's lungs with large amounts of smoke or gas, and introduced rotting pieces of tissue into the stomach of a living person.

According to the recollections of the special squad members, during its existence, about three thousand people died within the walls of the laboratories. However, some researchers argue that there were much more real victims of bloody experimenters

The end of the nightmare

It’s scary to imagine what kind of global catastrophe the work of the infernal laboratories could end in. Fortunately, on August 9, 1945, Soviet troops launched an offensive against the Kwantung Army in Manchuria and Korea. Reports of powerful attacks by the Red Army came as a complete surprise to the Japanese, panic reigned at headquarters, and Detachment 731 was ordered to act at its own discretion.

There was no longer talk of using accumulated bacteria as a weapon. The question arose about a hasty evacuation. Most of the research materials were immediately exported to Japan, from where, after the surrender, they came to the United States. Then the squad members began to hastily cover up the traces of their crimes. All experimental subjects were gassed and burned, mountains of autopsy reports and hellish experiments were destroyed, and the laboratories and prison were razed to the ground.

In December 1949, the Khabarovsk trial heard the case of former Japanese army soldiers accused of preparing bacteriological weapons and brutal experiments on people. Of the 2,600 employees of Detachment 731, only 12 people were put on trial. The rest were not affected by justice.

The most surprising thing is that many of those who cut, mocked and dissected living people became deans of universities, medical schools, academics, and businessmen in post-war Japan. Prince Takeda, who inspected the special squad, did not suffer any punishment. He headed the Japanese Olympic Committee ahead of the 1964 Games. And Shiro Ishii himself, the evil genius of Unit 731, lived comfortably in Japan and died only in 1959.

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According to testimony at the trial in Khabarovsk by the commander of the Kwantung Army, General Otsuzo Yamada, “Detachment 731” was organized to prepare bacteriological warfare, mainly against the Soviet Union, but also against the Mongolian People’s Republic, China and other states. The judicial investigation also proved that in “Detachment 731”, other, no less cruel and painful experiments that were not directly related to the preparation of bacteriological warfare.

Some of the unit's military doctors subsequently became famous surgeons, performing unique operations thanks to the experience gained in Unit 731. Perhaps the most typical experience of this kind can be called the autopsy of a living person. All vital organs were gradually removed from the experimental subjects under anesthesia or local anesthesia, one by one, starting from the peritoneum and chest and ending with the brain. Still living organs, called “preparations,” were sent for further research to different departments of the detachment.

The endurance limits of the human body were studied under certain conditions - for example, at high altitudes or at low temperatures. To do this, people were placed in pressure chambers, recording the agony on film, their limbs were frozen and the onset of gangrene was observed. If a prisoner, despite being infected with deadly bacteria, recovered, this did not save him from repeated experiments, which continued until death occurred. The “prototypes” never left the laboratory alive.

Especially remember this: “...the Japanese military was already convinced of the effectiveness of the work of “detachment 731” and began to develop plans for the use of bacteriological weapons against the USA and the USSR...

In July 1944, only the attitude of Prime Minister Tojo saved the United States from disaster. The Japanese planned to use balloons to transport strains of various viruses to American territory - from those fatal to humans to those that would destroy livestock and crops. Tojo understood that Japan was already clearly losing the war and that if attacked with biological weapons, America could respond in kind.

The author who wrote that it was as if “Tojo understood that Japan was clearly losing the war and if attacked with biological weapons, America could respond in kind, because, they say, the Japanese did not hit the USA with bactiorolic weapons, is this guy just a fool or the Japanese are giving him credit for these words paid well. The samurai believed until the last second that they would win.

But they didn’t hit the USA with bacteriological bombs: firstly, there was no reliable delivery of bombs - the balloons could very well fly in a completely different direction, and secondly, the Japanese did not have enough biological bombs so that after the attack on the USA, the Americans could not have responded to any retaliatory strike, with any weapon, and the Americans did not have biological weapons of the same quality as the Japanese had, they had them in scanty quantities and were very weak in destructive power in comparison with the Japanese. And the Americans hit the cannibals with what they had at hand at that time.

Let's remember!

And the Japanese attack on peacefully standing American ships in Pearl Harbor, and their complete destruction, and how the Japanese cut out the liver of almost every American prisoner of war and ate it right there...

The atomic bombing of Japan, their use of weapons of mass destruction, the Americans were only ahead of the Japanese in their attack on the United States with weapons of mass destruction - bacteriological, not atomic, but alternative - bacteriological bombs. So, perhaps, at the last moment, the Americans managed to escape the terrible and inevitable death from the Japanese. And they saved us all, all of humanity. After all, Hitler was just a few weeks short of receiving the “weapon of retaliation.”

We make politics out of everything. The Japanese don’t make politics out of anything like that.

“The attitude of the opposition to the actions of the cabinet shows: in Japan it is not customary to earn political points from a tragedy... This is what it is, the democracy of the Japanese assembly,” reports the very informed Kommersant, or at least pretends to be super informed.

For the Japanese, we are all “logs” that must be destroyed, and the Japanese work together for this, like ants. And it's all politics.

Year of manufacture: 2004
Country Russia
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 1:06:35
Director: E. Masyuk

Description: WARNING - This film contains SHOCKING footage!
The documentary film by E. Masyuk tells about the events that took place on the territory of modern China during the Second World War.

In 1939, a special detachment 731 was formed in Manchuria. Under it, a
a laboratory in which experiments were carried out on living people to use biological weapons.
The film contains interviews with participants in the events, and footage from the film Detachment 731, in my opinion Japanese or Chinese.

From myself: After watching this film, I was left with a very difficult impression.
A long time ago, as a child, I read a story from the magazine “Seeker”. It was a fictional story about detachment 731 - "V. Melnikov - Urgent, secret, to the dragon", based on real facts. Then I thought that the fascists and the non-humans from detachment 731 were the same. However, after watching this film, I changed my mind about the Japanese in World War II. And the worst thing is that they went unpunished.

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At one time, a terrible factory began operating in the hills of Manchuria. Living people were used as “raw materials”. And the “products” that were manufactured in this place could wipe out its entire population from the face of the earth in a relatively short period of time.

The peasants never approached this territory unless absolutely necessary. No one knew what the Japanese “death camps” (including “Unit 731”) were hiding. But there were many terrible rumors about what was happening there. They said that terrible and painful experiments were carried out on people there.

The special “Unit 731” was a secret death laboratory where the Japanese invented and tested the most terrible options for tormenting and exterminating people. Here the threshold of endurance of the human body, the border between life and death, was determined.

Hong Kong Battle

During World War II, the Japanese captured the part of China called Manchuria. After the famous battle near Pearl Harbor, more than 140 thousand people were captured, every fourth of whom was killed. Thousands of women were tortured, raped and killed.

The book by the famous American historian and journalist John Toland describes a large number of cases of violence against captives by the military. For example, in the Battle of Hong Kong, local British, Eurasian, Chinese and Portuguese fought off Japanese attackers. Just before Christmas they were completely surrounded and captured on the narrow Stanley Peninsula. There were a lot of Chinese and British medical workers who were stabbed, butchered, wounded and raped. This marked a humiliating end to British rule in Chinese territory. A more terrible nature was characteristic only of the atrocities of the Japanese against prisoners, which Japan is still trying to hide. “Death Factory” (“Unit 731” and others) are among them.

death camp

But even all the atrocities together were nothing compared to what the Japanese did in this detachment. It was located near the city of Harbin, in Manchuria. In addition to being a death camp, Unit 731 was also the site of various experiments. Research on bacteriological weapons was carried out on its territory, for which they used the living Chinese population.

In order for leading Japanese specialists to be able to fully engage in solving the assigned problems, they needed laboratory assistants and average technical personnel. For this purpose, capable teenagers who really wanted to study, but were low-income, were specially selected from schools. They were given very quick training in the discipline, after which they became specialists and became part of the technical staff of the institution.

Characteristic features of the camp

What did the Japanese “death camps” hide? "Detachment 731" was a complex that included 150 structures. In its central part there was block R0, where experiments were carried out on living people. Some of them were specially injected with cholera bacteria, anthrax, plague, and syphilis. Others were pumped with horse blood instead of human blood.

Many were shot, burned alive with mortars, blown up, bombarded with massive doses of X-rays, dehydrated, frozen and even boiled alive. Not a single person survived from those who were here. They killed absolutely everyone whom fate brought to this concentration camp “Detachment 731”.

The criminals are not punished

The United States declared an amnesty for all Japanese doctors and scientists who carried out atrocities during that period of time. According to the results of the research, the one who founded Unit 731 - Lieutenant General Shiro Ishii and the people around him - were granted amnesty immediately after the fall of Japan in 1945. These individuals paid for their release from punishment by providing the American authorities with complete and valuable information about the results of the tests.

Among them, “field tests” were carried out, during which civilians in China and Russia were infected with deadly anthrax and plague bacteria. As a result, they all died. When Japan was about to surrender in 1945, Chief Shiro Ishii decided to kill absolutely all the prisoners in the “death camps.” The same fate was provided for employees, security guards and members of their families. He himself lived until 1959. Shiro Ishii's cause of death was cancer.

Block R0

Block R0 is where Japanese doctors conducted experiments. They involved prisoners of war or local aborigines. In order to prove immunity to malaria, the Rabaul doctor injected the blood of the guards into prisoners of war. Other scientists have been studying the effects of injecting a variety of bacteria. They dismembered their experimental subjects in order to determine the nature and characteristics of a particular effect.

Some people specifically applied it to the stomach area. Then the Japanese practiced pulling bullets on them and amputating human organs. Unit 731 was also known for a very common experiment, the main essence of which was to cut out part of the liver of living prisoners. This was done in order to determine the limit of endurance.

When two of the prisoners attempted to escape, they were shot in the legs, dismembered and their livers were cut out. The Japanese said that this was the first time they had observed working human organs. However, despite the horror of these operations, they found them very informative and useful, just like Unit 731 itself.

It also happened that a prisoner of war was tied to a tree, his arms and legs were torn out, his torso was cut and his heart was amputated. Some prisoners had part of their brain or liver removed to see if they could live with the defective organ.

They were mistaken for "logs"

There were several reasons for locating this Japanese concentration camp - Unit 731 - in China rather than Japan. These include:

• maintaining secrecy;
• in the event of force majeure, the population of China, and not the Japanese, was at risk;
• constant availability of “logs” necessary for conducting lethal tests.

Health workers did not consider “logs” to be people. And none of them showed even the slightest sympathy for them. Everyone was inclined to think that this was a natural process, and that it should be so.

Features of conducting experiments

The profile type of experiments on prisoners is the plague test. Shortly before the end of the war, Ishii developed a strain of plague bacterium, the virulence of which was 60 times greater than normal.

The method of conducting the experiments was approximately the same:

• people were locked in special cages where, due to their small size, they did not even have the opportunity to turn around;
• then the prisoners of war were infected;
• observed the changes in the state of the body;
• After this, dissection was carried out, organs were removed and the characteristics of the spread of the disease within a person were analyzed.

Manifestations of the highest degree of inhumanity

At the same time, people were not killed, but they were not stitched up either. The doctor could monitor the changes occurring for several days. At the same time, there was no need to bother yourself once again and perform a second autopsy. In addition, absolutely no anesthesia was used, since, according to the doctors, it could disrupt the natural course of the spread of the disease being studied.

It was considered a great "luck" among the people who were brought to Unit 731 to be used for experiments using gas. In this case, death came much faster. During the most terrible experiments, it was proven that human endurance is almost equal in strength to that of pigeons. After all, the latter died in the same conditions as humans.

When the effectiveness of Ishii’s work was proven, the Japanese military began to develop plans to use the character against the USA and the USSR. Moreover, there was so much “ammunition” that it would be enough to destroy all the people on earth. And the Kwantung “Detachment 731” was involved in the development of each of them in one way or another.

Crimes are covered up to our time

No one knew what the Japanese did with the captured peoples. According to their statements, the prisoners were simply treated, and there were absolutely no violations. When the war first began, various reports of atrocities spread throughout Hong Kong and Singapore. But none of all the official US protests received a response. After all, the government of this country understood well that even if they condemned or admitted what they did (including “Detachment 731”), this would in no way affect the safety of prisoners of war.

Therefore, they officially refused to bring the perpetrators to justice in exchange for receiving the “scientific” data collected from the “logs.” They were able not only to forgive so many deaths, but also to keep them secret for many years.

Almost all scientists who worked in Unit 731 were not punished. The exception is those who fell into the hands of the USSR. The rest soon began to head universities, medical schools, and academies in post-war Japan. Some of them became businessmen. One of those “experimenters” took the chair of the governor of Tokyo, the other - the president of the Japanese Medical Association. Also among those who founded Unit 731 (photos of which testify to those terrible experiments) are many military men and doctors. Some of them even opened private maternity hospitals.