Wow. I cannot believe
that the United States government would execute every Nazi who committed crimes
against humanity but will not even acknowledge the fact that Japanese Unit 731
even existed. The experiments that the Nazis performed look almost pale in comparison
to the experiments done by Shiro Ishii and his men. I am seriously shocked that
the US would be selfish enough to pardon some of the worst crimes against
humanity just to get the information from said crimes.
On the other hand, some of these experiments have
provided a little bit of helpful information. But the fact that the people
experimented on were captured and worked on against their will makes this a
huge crime. The uneducated portion of these people could’ve thought that they
were going to be okay, based on the fact that they were fed and exercised
often. Because of this, I believe the Japanese running Unit 731 were sick,
twisted men.
I am also shocked about the Japanese that ran this camp.
Yes, I know that their emperor’s word is law, and yes, I know that they would
die if they disobeyed, but why couldn’t they just not experiment on humans and
lie about some findings? I must then believe that the Japanese surgeons and
soldiers must not have a hearts. If a person can remove another’s organs while
they are strapped down and screaming, it must be that they have no regard for
other human life, whether they were born that way or are doing it for fear of
the emperor’s execution.
Some of the experiments mentioned in this article sound
completely pointless. Why on earth would you need to put a human in a
centrifuge and spin them until they die?! Or why would a person need to be put
in a pressure chamber until their eyes exploded? This is just unacceptable to
let pass by if the United States new about this.
I can also see
this from the US government’s point of view. Some of the results of the
experiments could have and may still be useful. But on the other hand, the
Nazis could also have had some useful results from experimentation. We will
never know now, because the Nazis were executed or hunted down because of it.
But somehow, in the US government’s eyes, the Nazis’ experiments were illegal
and Unit 731’s experiments were perfectly fine. This just baffles me.
So in my final thoughts, I see that there is no rhyme or
reason to the pardoning and executing done by the United States’ government
after World War II for crimes against humanity. Josef Mengele, the Nazi’s most
famous experimenter on humans, was chased down with intent of being executed
for his experiments by the US government. On the other hand then, Shiro Ishii
and his men are doing almost exactly the same experiments but are not chased
down, and are allowed to live as if Unit 731 never existed if they gave up
their results. I really, really question the United States government and their
thinking.
