Covert bio warfare Unit 731
Was the research gathered by unit 731 enough to justify the pardoning of all its scientists?
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This investigation focuses on the medical and scientific achievements made by unit 731, compared to the horrific actions taken to achieve them, and then compares them to the scientific unit of europe and how they were dealt with, more effectively or not. Upon investigating further into the unit I found some interesting information, first person account from victims would not be possible because the Japanese who ran the camp insured there would be no survivors by the time the Russians came through, and when they did, the Russians dynamited the facility. In addition to lack of witnesses and evidence, general Ishii Shiro …show more content…
Four or five unit members, dressed in white laboratory clothing completely cover the body with only eyes and mouth visible, handled the tests. A male and female, one infected with syphilis, would be brought together in a cell and forced into sex with each others. It was made clear that anyone resisting would be shot." (Gold, Hal (2004). Unit 731: Testimony.)
◦Vivisections performed at different stages
◦One account reports children between ages 4-9 infected and growing up in the compound
•Rape and forced pregnancy
•Test idea of vertical transmission (mother to fetus) of syphilis, diseases
•Large numbers of infants born in facility reported, but no accounts of survival
•Women were targeted for bacteriological or physiological, or sex experiments.
•Weapons testing
•Effectiveness of grenade distance with human targets
•Flame throwers
•Humans tied to stakes for “germ-releasing bombs, chemical weapons, and explosive bombs”( wikipedia)
•High pressure experimentation
•Centrifuged to
Was the research gathered by unit 731 enough to justify the pardoning of all its scientists?
Sources
This investigation focuses on the medical and scientific achievements made by unit 731, compared to the horrific actions taken to achieve them, and then compares them to the scientific unit of europe and how they were dealt with, more effectively or not. Upon investigating further into the unit I found some interesting information, first person account from victims would not be possible because the Japanese who ran the camp insured there would be no survivors by the time the Russians came through, and when they did, the Russians dynamited the facility. In addition to lack of witnesses and evidence, general Ishii Shiro …show more content…
Four or five unit members, dressed in white laboratory clothing completely cover the body with only eyes and mouth visible, handled the tests. A male and female, one infected with syphilis, would be brought together in a cell and forced into sex with each others. It was made clear that anyone resisting would be shot." (Gold, Hal (2004). Unit 731: Testimony.)
◦Vivisections performed at different stages
◦One account reports children between ages 4-9 infected and growing up in the compound
•Rape and forced pregnancy
•Test idea of vertical transmission (mother to fetus) of syphilis, diseases
•Large numbers of infants born in facility reported, but no accounts of survival
•Women were targeted for bacteriological or physiological, or sex experiments.
•Weapons testing
•Effectiveness of grenade distance with human targets
•Flame throwers
•Humans tied to stakes for “germ-releasing bombs, chemical weapons, and explosive bombs”( wikipedia)
•High pressure experimentation
•Centrifuged to