Brace yourselves, history buffs! 😮 A Chinese museum just dropped some major revelations about Japan's notorious Unit 731, the secretive biological and chemical warfare unit from World War II. 📜🧪
On Saturday, the Museum of Evidence of War Crimes by Japanese Army Unit 731 in Harbin, northeastern China's Heilongjiang Province, unveiled a 69-page document that spills the beans on 52 staff members of Unit 731. The file includes their names, backgrounds, roles in war crimes, and what they did from Japan's defeat in August 1945 until they returned home. 🕵️♂️
Researchers digging into the document found intriguing connections between Unit 731 and Unit 516 in Qiqihar City. Both units were hubs for Japan's gruesome biological and chemical warfare, and they even teamed up for poison gas experiments! ☠️🌫️
\"Their cooperation is much closer than we thought and deserves deeper study,\" said Jin Chengmin, curator of the museum, in an interview with China Media Group. 🧐
One spotlight revelation is about a Unit 731 member who previously served as a health officer in Unit 516, highlighting the tight-knit operations between the units. 🔍
The document also uncovers that four Unit 731 members were sent to a medical university in Harbin controlled by the Japanese army for a three-year \"medical training\" as military family students. 🎓💉
\"This gives us key insights into how Japan's military, political, and medical sectors collaborated to train young soldiers,\" Jin added. \"It further proves that their human experiments and germ warfare were top-down, organized, premeditated, and systematic crimes by Japanese militarism.\" 💣🚫
The file was discovered at the National Archives of Japan and was returned to China in 2022 after multiple communications and negotiations. 🤝🇨🇳🇯🇵
Established in Harbin in 1935, Unit 731 was the nerve center of Japan's biological warfare in China and Southeast Asia during the war. The unit conducted horrific experiments on living people to test germ-releasing and chemical weapons. At least 3,000 individuals were subjected to these inhumane experiments, and over 300,000 people across China fell victim to Japan's biological weapons. 😢🙏
The unveiling of this document is a stark reminder of this dark chapter in history and underscores the importance of remembering the past to build a better future. 🌏✌️
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New document reveals further details of Japanese chemical warfare unit
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