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Munken · #9 (**permalink**) June 30th, 2003, 11:02 PM

I've read about the Japanese 731:st Unit that performed medical experiments on POWs.

Example:
They put sick prisoners with healthy ones to see how fast a sertain disease spread.

Other prisoners was placed in preassure chambers to see how much preassure a body could take before the eyes popped out.

To study injury from frost, they put a prisoner outside in the cold with bare arms and water was poured on them until the arms sounded like wood when you gave it a punch.

Nobuo Kamada, who worked for Unit 731 told US News that his main task was to to spread plague bacteries.
Once he was a part of the obduction of a chinese prisoner who was infected with plague by the japanese.
"The guy knew that he was finished so he didn't fight. But when i took the scalpell, he began to scream. I cutted him from the chest to the stomach and he was screaming terrible screams and he's face was distorted by pain. He made unthinkable sounds, he was screaming so terrible, but later he stopped." -Painkillers was not used during the obduction because they could affect the plagued organs.