Unit 731: Japan's Secret Biological Warfare in World War II By Peter

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From its base in Japanese-controlled Harbin in China, Unit 731 and related units injected war prisoners with typhus, cholera and other diseases There were deadly experiments with airtight chambers at Unit 731, the same ones as those conducted at the Nazi concentration camps Some prisoners were

Unit 731 was a top-secret research base established in Harbin and acted as the nerve center Unit 731 was the world's largest and most comprehensive biological warfare programme Inside Unit 731 the Japanese conducted research and human