Erased Atrocities of Unit 731

Unit 731 conducted experiments so brutal that even hardened war crimes investigators struggled to document

them. This secret Japanese military unit during World War Two performed live dissections

on conscious prisoners, tested biological weapons on thousands of men, women,

and children, and deliberately infected people with diseases to study their effects.

They froze limbs to test frostbite treatments and conducted pressure experiments until organs ruptured.

Over ten thousand people died in these facilities. The most disturbing part is what happened

after the war. American occupation forces granted immunity to the scientists in exchange for

their research data. No one was prosecuted by the United States. The lead researchers went on to have