• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
    30·
    27 天前

    Explanation: Unit 731 was an infamous Japanese torture unit during WW2 which undertook horrific experiments primarily on Chinese prisoners and civilians. Their results, which were often performed using substandard scientific methodology and record-keeping, often amounted to such stunning conclusions as “If you amputate all of someone’s limbs without anesthesia, they usually die”.

    There was, supposedly, some useful data in more rigorously conducted experiments on frostbite and tuberculosis, but for obvious reasons, there are ethical considerations to the release of that data.

  • Shareni@programming.devEnglish
    32·
    26 天前

    At the end of the war

    Soviets rushing to cover as much land in order to hang everyone involved for crimes against humanity

    Americans: you get immunity, and you get immunity, anyone with any research to trade gets immunity!!!

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      71·
      26 天前

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731#Separate_Soviet_trials

      The sentences doled out to the Japanese perpetrators were unusually lenient by Soviet standards, and all of the defendants returned to Japan by 1956.[111]

      In addition to the accusations of propaganda, the US also asserted that the trials served as a distraction from the Soviet treatment of several hundred thousand Japanese prisoners of war; meanwhile, the USSR asserted that the US had given the Japanese diplomatic leniency in exchange for information about their human experimentation. However, it is likely that former Unit 731 members had also passed information about their biological experimentation to the Soviet government in exchange for judicial leniency.[111] The Soviet Union built a biological weapons facility in Sverdlovsk using documentation captured from Unit 731 in Manchuria.[112]

      • Shareni@programming.devEnglish
        12·
        26 天前

        Chief trial translator Georgy Permyakov alleged that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin may have initially feared that Japan would execute Soviet prisoners of war if the Khabarovsk defendants were hanged.[10]

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khabarovsk_war_crimes_trials

        7 years in the Gulag VS complete immunity, sealing/destruction of evidence that could lead to their persecution, and a stipend on top

        I know what side they’d want to be captured by…

        • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
          3·
          26 天前

          Soviets rushing to cover as much land in order to hang everyone involved for crimes against humanity

          This you?

          While twelve Unit 731 researchers arrested by Soviet forces were tried at the December 1949 Khabarovsk war crimes trials, they were sentenced only to the Siberian labor camp from two to 25 years, seemingly in exchange for the information they held.

          All of the defendants (aside from one who died in prison and another who committed suicide) had been freed by 1956, a mere seven years after the trial took place.

          This your source?