Unfortunately, the way they chose to go about this was to try to induce stuttering in orphans by telling them they were doomed to start stuttering in the future. In 1939, speech pathologists at the University of Iowa set out to prove their theory that stuttering was a learned behavior caused by a child's anxiety about speaking. It was not until the late 1990's that Japan first acknowledged the existence of the unit and not until 2018 that the names of thousands of members of the Unit were disclosed, according to The Guardian (opens in new tab). government helped keep the experiments secret as part of a plan to make Japan a cold-war ally, according to the Times report. Prisoners were marched in freezing weather and then experimented on to determine the best treatment for frostbite.įormer members of the unit have told media outlets that prisoners were dosed with poison gas, put in pressure chambers until their eyes popped out, and even dissected while alive and conscious. Numerous atrocities were committed including infecting wells with cholera and typhoid and spreading plague-ridden fleas across Chinese cities.Īccording to Peterson the fleas were dropped in clay bombs, which were dropped at a height of 200-300 meters and showed no trace. Among them were plague, anthrax, dysentery, typhoid, paratyphoid and cholera, according to a paper by Dr Robert K D Peterson for Montana University (opens in new tab). Numerous diseases were studied in order to determine their potential use in warfare. Led by General Shiro Ishii, the lead physician at UNIT 731, the death toll of these brutal experiments is unknown, but as many as 200,000 may have died, estimates Historian Sheldon H Harris according to a 1995 New York Times report (opens in new tab). Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, the Japanese Imperial Army conducted biological warfare and medical testing on civilians, mostly in China. Shiro Ishii, commander of Unit 731 (Image credit: Wikipedia)
He died in Brazil in 1979, of a heart attack, his final years spent lonely and depressed according to The Guardian (opens in new tab). Some of the doctors responsible for these atrocities were later tried as war criminals, but Mengele escaped to South America. She eventually injected the child with a lethal dose of morphine to keep it from suffering longer. One woman, Ruth Elias, had her breasts tied off with string so SS doctors could see how long it took her baby to starve, according to an oral history collected by the Holocaust Museum (opens in new tab). Countless prisoners were subjected to experimental sterilization procedures. Others were forced into freezing temperatures and low-pressure chambers for aviation experiments, according to the Jewish Virtual Library (opens in new tab). The Nazis used prisoners to test treatments for infectious diseases and chemical warfare. Holocaust Memorial Museum (opens in new tab). He also collected the eyes of his dead "patients," according to the U.S. Mengele combed the incoming trains for twins upon which to experiment, hoping to prove his theories of the racial supremacy of Aryans. Perhaps the most infamous evil experiments of all time were those carried out by Josef Mengele, an SS physician at Auschwitz during the Holocaust. The entrance to the Auschwitz concentration camp (Image credit: Getty/ Bettmann)
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