Unit 731 of the Japanese army, notorious, many people know. However, in the Shenyang Allied Prisoner of War Camp, for this organization, very few people know about it, and the cooperation between the two organizations is even more secretive!
The Pacific War, in general, broke out very suddenly. In the early stage, due to the lack of preparation of the Allied forces, they repeatedly lost in the Pacific Theater, resulting in a large number of Allied officers and soldiers being captured. As the Japanese army continued to extend its front, it could only implement the strategy of "feeding the war with war", and these prisoners naturally could not sit in prison and eat dry food.
The Japanese transported Allied prisoners of war to their own countries and occupied territories and drove them into hard labor. According to some records, during World War II, the Japanese army established more than 200 prisoner of war camps, of which the Shenyang Allied prisoner of war camp is one of them.
From November 1942 to August 1945, the Shenyang Allied prisoner-of-war camp successively held prisoners of war from the United States, Britain, Canada, France and other countries, up to more than 2,000 people, of which the American prisoners of war eventually approached 1,700. The number of prisoners of war at the level of generals alone was as high as 71.
731 is a secret special forces unit with its headquarters in the northeast for a reason:
On the one hand, in the vicinity of the Soviet Union, a base of germ warfare weapons was established for future invasion of the Soviet Union.
On the one hand, in the tohoku region, there are a large number of non-Japanese personnel who can provide a carrier for the test.
Japan attaches great importance to this force, providing at least 15-20 million yuan of research funds per year, and the budget is far more than that of the same level of troops.
So, what is the relationship between the Shenyang Allied Prisoner of War Camp and Unit 731?
As we all know, due to different races, the results of bacterial experiments will be different. Using Chinese as a carrier can no longer satisfy Japan's ambition to dominate the world. The Japanese may have planned early on to provide Allied prisoners of war on the Southeast Asian battlefield to Unit 731.
This is also the reason why the Japanese army traveled thousands of miles to transport Allied prisoners of war to Shenyang.
Unit 731, the Shenyang Allied prisoner-of-war camp, the two are 300 kilometers apart, both within the jurisdiction of the puppet Manchurian Kwantung Army, and at that time Shenyang was also an important military town, prisoners of war could be subjected to hard labor, or they could carry out bacterial experiments, killing two birds with one stone.
For a long time, the United States and the Japanese army maintained a high degree of consistency, and some information was kept strictly confidential. But later, there was still a leak.
In 1943, more than 20 members of Unit 731 entered the Shenyang prisoner-of-war camp as a "medical team". Among them, the "Manchurian 319th Unit" set up in Dalian, specializing in the development of infectious diseases, serums and vaccines, this year, blood expert Xiang Zhengxiong, completed his experimental project "American Soldiers' Blood Characteristics and Immunity to Infectious Diseases", It is clear that the test data must come from american soldiers in Shenyang prisoner-of-war camps.
After the "medical team" entered the camp, for more than 2 years, the prisoners of war did not receive effective treatment, or they continued to die.
A British prisoner, a medic, recorded what happened every day in the camp with a special sign.
According to his records, from 13 February 1943 to 6 March 1945, prisoners of war were vaccinated as many as 15 times. The medical team was not keen on how to cure the POW's illness and after the vaccination, but would ask strange questions, such as ethnic background.
Another example, some prisoners of war suffered from dysentery, the Japanese medicine was very strange, the special drug at that time was quinine, the first three days, eat 15 pills a day, the next 10 days, 9 pills a day, the last 10 days, 3 pills a day. According to the formal treatment at that time, the dose had to reach 30-50 capsules a day.
The Japanese army did not treat prisoners of war for complete healing, as if they were relapsing, understanding their resistance to infectious diseases.
Moreover, the reasons for the death of prisoners of war given by the Japanese army later cannot be convincing!
Basically, prisoners of war who died either died of "beriberi" or "acute gastrointestinal disease".
It is reasonable to determine that before the defeat, the Japanese Unit 731 had successfully completed the test of the blood characteristics of American soldiers and immunity to infectious diseases.