When it comes to Unit 731, everyone is no stranger to the crimes committed by the Japanese army in the great northeast of our country are still deeply engraved in the hearts of every Chinese son and daughter, especially Unit 731 has done so many evil things but has not received the retribution that it deserves, and many people are extremely angry.
However, just recently, a blogger wrote an article about the 731 dehydration experiment, the specific content is this: he said: the human body's water content is not known because of 731, as early as the nineteenth century, scholars have studied this problem.
In 1863, someone used corpses to do dehydration experiments, and by the 20th century, people had many ways to measure the amount of water in the human body, such as the use of isotopes or the use of specific gravity methods, which could measure the water content in the human body.
And he also wrote that in 1945, there was a paper that doctors used the corpses of people who died of heart disease, surgically removed the various organs in the corpses, and then tested them, including the test of water. Through this experiment, it can be concluded that the whole body is steamed dry is an unrealistic experiment, it has to have a small surface area, and it will change when it is not dried inside, so the living experiment is even more unrealistic.
And the blogger also said that the average water content of the human body is not seventy percent, but the average adult male is sixty percent, and the female is fifty-five percent, but this figure is not accurate, and at the end of his article, he also said that the 731 unit has committed enough atrocities, so he does not need to use rumors to add new public opinion.
As soon as this article broke out, it caused comments on the whole network, and even many netizens accused him of partial generalization, the atrocities of Japan's 731 and the fact that the 20th century has been able to measure the moisture in the human body, which are completely different things.
Let's first talk about how Unit 731's experiments on human hydration were conducted. According to the recollection of japanese unit 731 veterans, there were many Chinese in Japanese prisons at that time, and in order to find out how much water Chinese had in their bodies, they would then lock them in a dry room and constantly blow them with hot wind, causing the experimenters to sweat until they died of dehydration. Many of the corpses were completely dried, becoming a dry corpse and weighing only twenty-two percent of their lives.
At that time, Unit 731 conducted inhumane human experiments on prisoners of war and civilians in China, and this matter was published long ago, whether from the memories of Japanese prisoners of war or from the Trial of War Criminals in the Soviet Union. The Japanese writer Seiichi Morimura once published an article about the atrocities of Unit 731, which included a passage in which the Japanese referred to the captured prisoners of war and the Chinese people as Maruda, which means logs, that is, they compare Chinese as moving wood.
And in his article details the whole process of drying experiments. The Japanese tied these horses to chairs, put them in a hot and dry room, and baked them in a dry hot air. In this situation, Maruda soon sweated profusely, and the sweat kept dripping to the ground, but it was quickly dried by the hot wind. Over time, the water in their bodies was completely steamed dry and turned into a dry corpse. The dried corpses were weighed and weighed only twenty-two percent of their body weight before they were born.
I was really angry when I saw this, and I couldn't help but think about how the Chinese soldiers treated Japanese prisoners of war after Japan's defeat. China adopted a tolerant policy toward Japanese prisoners of war, but considering the crimes they committed in China, it felt that they deserved to be punished more severely.
However, such a demonic army escaped trial after the end of the war. It is recorded that because the United States wanted the results of their experiments at that time, the Japanese exchanged with the United States, and the Japanese gave all the test results of 731 to the United States, and the United States wanted to ensure that everyone in this unit could escape trial. So when this blogger was published, it was condemned by many people, and was suspected of stealing the concept, which was considered to be a whitewash for Japanese atrocities.