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The East’s Auschwitz: How Imperial Japan’s Secret Experimenters Escaped Justice
During the Holocaust, Josef Mengele discarded every medical ethic to perform horrific human experiments at Auschwitz, including non-consensual vivisections, limb transplants, and agonizing surgeries conducted without anesthesia. Japan had its own program that is less known but equally brutal. In occupied China, the Imperial Japanese Army’s Unit 731 operated a vast complex where thousands were subjected to biological warfare tests and lethal physiological experiments to further military research.
During the occupation of Japan after WWII, the US had an important decision to make. Should…
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