In the winter of 2023, in the cold and windy winter, the nearly 30-kilometer journey from ** Street to the 731 site seems to have become a witness of history. Although the temperature is close to minus 30 degrees, the footsteps of tourists are still unwavering. On this road, people lined up in a long line, solemn, as if paying tribute to that heavy history.
Everyone in the team, with a heavy heart, silently waited to enter the 731 site. Some of their eyes were filled with tears, some were silent, and some showed deep grief. For them, this journey is not only a simple trip, but also a remembrance and reflection on history.
The 731 site is a witness to that dark history and a brand in the heart of every Chinese. Every inch of land and every stone here records that painful history. Visitors stop here and think in silence, as if they can feel the tragedy and sorrow of that era.
Although Harbin's ice and snow tourism is very popular across the country, attracting countless tourists to see the ice and snow wonders, in this context, people have not forgotten the criminal history of Japanese militarism in the northeast region 80 years ago. This history is like a whisper of winter, it drifts in the wind, slowly telling the physical and mental pain. It reminds people of that tragic time, and reminds people who come after them not to forget history and to work hard.
The crimes committed by Japanese militarism against Chinese names during World War II are unforgivable, synonymous with sin and darkness, and will always be engraved in the hearts of every Chinese. The infamous Unit 731 is like a devil crawling out of hell, and every mention of it makes people's hearts twist. This unit, called the 731st Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Unit of the Japanese Kwantung Army in Manchuria, is synonymous with darkness and evil. In the name of researching the prevention of disease and the purification of drinking water, they carried out inhumane live experiments, and those innocent Chinese compatriots, Koreans, and even prisoners of war of the coalition forces became merciless experiments in their hands.
Unit 731, this heinous crime, is ironclad evidence that the Japanese fascists launched bacteriological warfare and carried out genocide. They are conducting all kinds of gruesome experiments in the secret military medical base in the Pingfang District of Harbin. When they fled in August 1945, they blew up most of the buildings in an attempt to cover up their heinous crimes. However, those surviving ruins still stand in place today, like witnesses of history, telling the painful memories that cannot be erased.
In the logbook of the former personnel of Unit 731, we were able to get a glimpse of the tip of the iceberg of that terrifying era. That sunny Thursday, October 26, seemed like a harbinger of the end of the world. According to the different division of labor of poison gas, venom and electricity, the experimenters carried out inhumane experiments on living people.
In the first group, the poor subject, his lungs were severely damaged after suffering from carbonyl chloride. Even though a full day had passed, he was still breathing tenaciously. However, when the experimenters injected him with 15 mg of cyanic acid compound, he lost consciousness forever after only 20 minutes.
In the second group, the first person was subjected to a high-voltage current of 20,000 volts, but still did not give in. Venom eventually took his life. And the second person, despite repeated torture of 5,000 volts of high-voltage current, has always been tenacious and unyielding. Eventually, the electricity finally continued to flow in for a few minutes, brutally taking his life.
This text, every word is bloody, and every sentence is shocking. It reveals the unspeakable crimes of Unit 731. Under the cover of war, in the name of disease prevention and drinking water purification, this unit carried out the evil deeds of experimenting with living people and studying bacteria and viruses to mutilate living beings. They are the annihilation of humanity, the demons of war, and the disgrace of human history.
From the criminal history of Unit 731, a character has become a devil that the Chinese people can never forget, he is the founder of Unit 731 "Shiro Ishii", who has similar experience and status to Yamamoto Isoroku in the Japanese Navy, born in an ordinary civilian family, graduated from the medical system and joined the Japanese army, obsessed with bacteriology, serology, epidemic prevention, pathology and preventive medicine, Shiro Ishii's research on these medical knowledge has entered the level of obsession, almost forgetting to sleep and eat. He traveled to Western countries to study and learn advanced medical technology, he believed that military medicine is not only the first and prevention, the purpose of real military medicine is to attack, after returning to China to lobby the highest level of Japan, and finally contributed to the birth of Unit 731.
After graduating in 1927, Dr. Shiro Ishii was assigned to a local hospital, and his professional skills were published in local magazines, and he gradually accumulated a certain reputation in the medical field. At this time, Shiro Ishii thought more and more that the research of bacteria ** was imperative, so he made a grand wish, and since then he has embarked on the road of a life of sin. In 1927, bacteriological warfare was declared illegal at the World Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, but Shiro Ishii believed that bacteriological warfare had great lethality on the battlefield, and the world powers would not fail to investigate and ignore it, and could only say that in the darkness under the sun, practicality would occupy all positions. So Shiro Ishii went back and forth to the top echelons of Japanese militarism, trying his best to sell his germ warfare ideas.
In 1930, Shiro Ishii began preparations for bacteriological warfare, he believed that bacteriological warfare is not only the first and the prevention of disease, but also the application of war faster, larger scale to kill the enemy, he paid attention to the highest level of the Japanese militarist report, rendering the development of bacteriological ** has been urgent, otherwise it will be subject to the damage caused by bacteria. After traveling to the West, Shiro Ishii was appointed as an instructor in the epidemic prevention department of the Army Medical School, and was promoted to the rank of army sergeant.
In 1932, the Japanese military top brass further urged the application of bacteriological warfare and gave priority to Shiro Ishii's research by giving him a one-time support of 200,000 yen and increasing his funding year by year. At that time, 200,000 yuan was a huge amount of money at the time when Japan's economy was in a depression, which shows the level of support for it at that time. In order to satisfy his research, a basic site was also provided for it, called the Epidemic Prevention Research Institute, which was the base camp of Shiro Ishii's bacteriological warfare until the surrender of Japan.
In 1932, in order to meet the research of bacteriological warfare for realistic experiments, Shiro Ishii conducted an investigation in the occupied northeast of China, which was a kind of need, because the experiment of bacteriological poplar required live experiments, and the northeast region was an ideal venue. On a scorching summer day in 1933, the iron hooves of the Kwantung Army stepped into Xuanhua Street and Confucian Temple Street in Nangang District, Harbin City, and in the middle of the two, they established a first-class fortress - the Institute of Bacteriology. This institute is like a devil with a bloody mouth, quietly devouring innocent lives. The bacteriological testing site is located 70 kilometers away from the research institute in the Beiyin River, which has become a nightmare for innocent people.
As time passed, the scale of the institute's experiments continued to expand, and it seemed that it could no longer satisfy the greedy heart of the Kwantung Army. So, in June 1938, they decided to move this devil's fortress to the Harbin Bungalow base. It became a new place for them to continue their evil experiments, like a never-ending nightmare, hanging over the land of Harbin.
In order to conceal its criminal purpose, the institute changed its name several times in an attempt to cover up its crimes. However, in 1941, it finally officially surfaced under the name "Manchurian Unit 731". This force is large and well-equipped, with an establishment of more than 3,000 people, and even as high as 4,500 at its peak.
Although it claims to be a research institute, it is actually a place for experiments on living people. These experimenters were captured by the Japanese gendarmerie and Japanese puppets from all over the country, and they came from Northeast China, East China and other places. Among them were Chinese, Koreans, Mongols, and Soviets, as well as the Eighth Route Army, underground workers, anti-Japanese students, workers, teachers, and ordinary people. Once secretly sent to Nakama City, they are all called "Maluta", a word meaning "wood" in Japanese, meaning that they were used as "materials" for experiments. Unit 731 conducted more than 40 human experiments, the most common of which was bacterial infection. These experiments include bacterial injection, oral irrigation, subcutaneous implantation, etc., of which there are 4-5 types of bacterial infection experiments alone. All of these experiments were heinous and the subjects were subjected to inhumane treatment. These innocent people have suffered unimaginable pain and torture here, and their lives have become so insignificant here.
Living desection, codenamed "Road Big". The project was unbelievably brutal in that it captured subjects from innocent residents of China, who were ruthlessly referred to as "round logs" (maruta). Shockingly, the core requirement of this project was that it had to be performed in a fully awake state, and that no anesthesia of any kind was allowed. Japanese military doctors stubbornly believe that the research data after anesthesia are untrue, which undoubtedly exposes their cruel and unscrupulous mentality.
Imagine those innocent victims suffering in pain without anesthesia. As the sharp blades sliced through their skin and sliced their organs, the screams resounded throughout the lab. What a hell on earth! Every autopsy is an endless torture and pain for the victims.
What's even more shameful is that this kind of tragic behavior turned out to be the basic skill necessary for all doctors in Unit 731. This is an extreme trampling on human morality and humanity, and an extreme contempt for life. Such bestiality is really outrageous!
In a thrilling scene, the blood of humans and horses is swapped. A strong man was stripped of most of his blood, his body trembling like a dead leaf, the spasmodic pain contorting his whole body in such a way that even the medic could not fully hold him down.
The military doctors did not hesitate and immediately transfused the blood of the horses for him. However, this is not the beginning of hope, but the prelude to a nightmare. The horse's blood caused a strong rejection reaction in the human body, raging like a flame in his body, engulfing him in an instant. The skin of his whole body began to turn pale, the spark of life quickly dimmed, and finally, he completely disappeared into the abyss of pain.
At this moment, they realized that the blood of humans and horses is two worlds that are incompatible with each other. Any attempt to transcend will only bring the silence of death.
In order to obtain the most accurate data, these innocent subjects suffered the pain of dissection without any anesthesia. They are sentient, and watching their internal organs being removed one by one is a heart-rending pain that makes it unbearable to look at them directly. Even when the heart is put in the bottle, it is still beating, as if to tell of unspeakable suffering. The frostbite experiment was even more brutal, and the subject's hands were exposed to the cold of more than minus 20 degrees, and they were frozen into ice bars. Then, with a single tap, their fingers were broken, desolate and miserable. There is an even more heinous operation, soak the frozen hands in warm water, wait until the hands are wilted and droop, and with a sharp thrash, the skin and flesh are separated, and the elbow below instantly turns into two pieces of white bones.
Germs invade the fetus, like an invisible blade silently cutting the cradle of life. When a woman is pregnant with a new life, the fragile and delicate fetus quietly takes shape in the mother's womb, but at this time, germs are eyeing in the dark. They targeted the helpless little being, ready to launch a brutal attack. Imagine those germs like cunning assassins, taking advantage of the moment when the mother's immunity is declining, quietly invading the world of the fetus. Like bloodthirsty claws, they greedily devour the health of the fetus and destroy the tissues of the fetus. And the fetus, this little life that has not yet fully developed, can only struggle powerlessly in this catastrophe.
What is even more outrageous is that the Japanese army actually performed a vivisection after the fetus was formed to observe its state. This undoubtedly pushes the fetus to the brink of life and death. And the researchers watched all this coldly.
Human Limb Swap In which two people were amputated separately and then surgically swapped limbs, if the test was successful, it would be of great significance to restore the combat effectiveness of the disabled Japanese soldiers, but the test failed because the attached limbs showed no signs of recovering life.
In"Body hydration"In this experiment, the subject was confined to a hot, closed cage as if subjected to relentless steaming, and suffered for 15 hours until the water in his body completely evaporated and his body withered like a dry mummy. And all this is just for verification"The human body contains 78% water"This absurd assertion. Unit 731's crimes are so serious that every atrocity is heinous and unspeakable.
To test the power of the bacteria, they tied their victims to a stake in the wild, as if in a mysterious circle, five meters apart from each other. They then dropped or detonated from the air or at close range the bacterial ceramic bombs containing bacterium anthrax, plague, cholera, melioidosis, dysentery, paratyphoid and other germs. The power of the bomb instantly blew most of the people into bloody pieces, leaving only a few lying in a pool of blood in agony, and soon after their wounds infected with these deadly bacteria. According to statistics, more than 5,000 people died in these live experiments during Unit 731's stay in China. And this is just the tip of the iceberg, they have also carried out a number of heinous germ warfare through various bacterial experiments. In 1940, Unit 731 dropped 50 kilograms of cholera germs and 5 kilograms of cholera fleas in Ningbo, which was like throwing a boulder on the tranquil lake, which instantly stirred up waves. In just a few months, the epidemic was like a wildfire, infecting more than 1,000 people, and lives withered in the pain. In 1941, they sowed plague germs over Changde, like a dark curse. As the epidemic spreads and the death toll climbs to more than 6,000, the people of Changde live in fear and despair. In 1942, Unit 731 attacked again, this time targeting Yunnan. With a wave of their hand, tens of thousands of cholera bacteria were scattered across the land of Yunnan. In just two months, 58 counties were hit by the epidemic, and more than 90,000 people were killed. The land was flooded with wails and tears, and the tragedy of broken families and deaths continued to be staged. In August 1943, the Luxi region was hit by a relentless torrential rain. At this time, the Japanese army had malicious intentions and took advantage of the skyrocketing water level of the river to launch the Luxi bacteriological warfare. They are like cold-blooded poisoners, ruthlessly spreading cholera bacteria into the Wei River valley. Subsequently, they ruthlessly dug the dikes, plunging innocent people into untold suffering. For a time, the flood raged like a beast and swept through 24 counties. The people struggled in wailing, but the shadow of death was always there. According to statistics, this unjustified disaster led to a whopping 42More than 70,000 people died tragically. Behind this series of shocking figures, there are heinous conspiracies and innocent and tragic deaths. These victims are like pawns abandoned by fate, at the mercy of these inhuman Japanese soldiers. Every scream, every trembling, every tear seems to be an indictment of that cruel history.
In terms of moral degradation, Japan's Unit 731 can be described as a demon in the abyss, and they force women to cross with livestock and beasts in order to study the so-called national eugenics. All the extremely cruel experiments imaginable by mankind, especially those projects that may kill and injure a large number of enemies or their own people, the officers and men of Unit 731 have carried out all of them. They understood that these experiments were unimaginable in peacetime, but in the so-called holy war of the emperor they did not have the slightest sense of guilt. The only thing that makes them feel unbearable are the innocent animals, such as the white rats. After the war, they erected a monument to the animals. In contrast, the tens of thousands of victims who died did not even have ashes left, and they were treated even less than the animals.
In 1945, when the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was coming to an end, in order to cover up its criminal behavior, the Japanese 731 unit also walked the remaining bacteria and viruses in China's land mountains when they fled, and only between 1946 and 1954 there were six plagues in Harbin, and Shiro Ishii issued a death order not to allow the secrets of 731 to be brought to the world, and to take them all to the grave. It is unbelievable that Shiro Ishii, who committed such an inhumane crime, was able to escape the Tokyo Trial.
The truth of the matter is cruel, after Japan's surrender, the United States and the Soviet Union formed a Cold War trend, in order to prevent the test data from falling into the hands of the Soviets, the United States, the victorious country in World War II, accepted the test data of Unit 731 in its entirety, and at the cost of the ugly history of Unit 731 was evaporated from the world for a period of time, and did not get the judgment it deserved.
The United States was granted 200,000 yen for the war crimes of Unit 731 on the basis of truthful data on all of Unit 731's human experiments, bacteriological tests, bacteriological warfare, and poison gas tests. These data include real slides, human anatomy specimens and test reports, and they were all finally transferred to the biological warfare laboratory at Fort Detrick Base in Maryland, the modern bacteriological research and development center in the United States, where they shielded World War II war criminals and concealed the heinous crimes of Shiro Ishii and Unit 731 from the world.
History is any little girl who dresses up, he makes us recognize that we came from, and can also tell us where we are going in history, and cherish today's hard-won. The exit of the exhibition hall is an uphill road, and the confessions of war criminals on both sides make people feel oppressive and heavy. If you walk forward, you can see the light, don't forget history, national suffering, national hatred and family hatred, cherish peace, and our generation should be self-reliant.