And one of the biggest problems, when reading up on this, is finding what all of this did for us. All the books love to go in to detail - like horror novels - on how it was all brutal. There is no denying it. It was brutal, horrid, and a dark chapter in the book of humanity. However, none of these texts like to go in to detail, or any detail at all it seems, on how all of those horrid experiments helped further our understanding of our bodily functions, and to help us save lives today. For example intravenous infusion. Treating burns, and understanding the limits of the human body. However all at an unimaginably horrid price.
Anyways, my point here is; where can one find texts on how these furthered the understanding, in the ways the early medical colleges did human dissections, and created the detailed drawings and names of the innards of humans.The test subjects included infants, the elderly, and pregnant women (including unborn fetuses). Many experiments were performed without the use of anesthetics because it was believed that it might have affected the results.
Vivisection
* Vivisections were performed on prisoners infected with various diseases. Scientists would perform invasive surgery on prisoners removing organs to study the effects of disease on the human body.[6] The infected and vivisected prisoners included women, children and infants.
* Vivisections were also performed on pregnant women, sometimes impregnated by doctors, and the baby removed.
* Prisoners had limbs amputated in order to study blood loss.
* Those limbs that were removed were sometimes reattached to opposite sides of the body.
* Some prisoners' limbs were frozen and removed by saw.
* Some prisoners had their stomachs surgically removed and the esophagus was reattached to the intestines.
* Parts of the brain, lungs, liver, etc. were removed from some prisoners.
Weapons testing
* Human targets were used to test grenades positioned at various distances and in different positions.
* Flame throwers were tested on humans.
* Human targets tied to stakes were used to test germ-releasing bombs, chemical weapons and explosive bombs.
Germ warfare attacks
* Unit 731 and its affiliated units (Unit 1644, Unit 100 etc.) went beyond the "testing" phase of biological weapons, and actively committed epidemic-creating germ warfare assaults against the Chinese people (both civilians and soldiers) throughout World War II. Plague-infested fleas, bred in the lab facilities of Unit 731 and Unit 1644, were spread by low-flying airplanes over Chinese populated locations, such as the coastal city of Ningbo in 1940, and the city of Changde, Hunan province in 1941. This military aerial spraying resulted in human epidemics of bubonic plague (the "Black Death") that killed thousands of innocent Chinese civilians.[7]
Other experiments
* Some prisoners were deprived of food and water to determine the length of time before death.
* Some prisoners were placed into high pressure chambers until they died.
* Some prisoners were exposed to extreme temperatures and developed frostbite to determine how long humans can survive with such an affliction.
* Some experiments were performed to determine the relationship between temperature, burns and human survival.
* Some prisoners were placed into centrifuges and spun until death.
* Animal blood was injected into some prisoners and the effects of this studied.
* Some prisoners had lethal doses of x-ray radiation administered.
* Gas chambers tested various chemical weapons on some prisoners.
* Air bubbles were injected into some prisoners' bloodstreams to simulate a stroke.
* Sea water was injected into some prisoners to determine if it could be substituted for saline.
This is all still highly disturbing, however why should knowledge of it be held back?
