Chapter 238: Seven Thirty-One
Although the words of Theodorhaus, Germany's first post-war federal president, are not without the meaning of the Germans to glorify themselves, they are also true.
Whether it's a nation or a person, if only one or two people say it's bad, or only people with a direct conflict of interest say it's bad, then it's normal. But if the world, regardless of whether they have a conflict of interest or not, thinks that someone is not so good, then it is time for that person to rethink.
The impression left on the Japanese is not good in this era. And its inherent ruthless character is also revealed in various things. The bottom line is so low that it's unacceptable. And the 731 unit led by Shiro Ishii is the most of them.
Shiro Ishii was born into a wealthy family in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, and his family not only occupied a large amount of land in Chiyoda Village, but also ran a brewery and silkworm cocoon business. Shiro Ishii is born with excellent conditions, so he has a height that is rare in Japanese people and a memory that is difficult for ordinary people to achieve.
Later generations of people who have been tortured by exams know that a good memory is the key factor in becoming a top student, whether it is in arts or science. Shiro Ishii's outstanding memory made it smooth sailing in his studies. In 1927, Shiro Ishii received his Ph.D. in microbiology.
Although, at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva in 1925, chemical warfare and biological warfare were outlawed. But Shiro Ishii, a Ph.D. student in microbiology, is well aware of the power of germ warfare. After earning his Ph.D. in microbiology, Shiro Ishii began lobbying everywhere to emphasize the importance of germ warfare. And finally won the support of the Japanese Ministry of War Nagata Tetsuyama Daisa.
In August 1928, Shiro Ishii was ordered to travel to Europe to gather intelligence. In two years, Shiro Ishii traveled to Singapore, Ceylon, Egypt, Greece, Turkey, Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, the Soviet Union, Estonia, Latvia, East Prussia, Hawaii, Canada, and the United States.
After returning to Japan in 1930, he reported to Major General Nagata Tetsuyama, director of the Military Affairs Bureau of the Japanese Army Ministry: "I believe that the development of bacteriological weapons cannot be delayed, and a delay of one day will certainly cause Japan to have endless resentment." ”
1932. The Japanese military department allocated 200,000 yen to Shiro Ishii. The prototype of its "Epidemic Prevention Research Laboratory" was established. Since Japan had already occupied the three northeastern provinces of China at this time, Shiro Ishii reported to Sadao Araki: "Now we feel that the time has come for the research of bacteriological weapons to be experimented, and we ask the military department to transfer all of us to Manchuria. The bacteriological weapons that we used to defend the Imperial Army were developed to a high degree. ”
Subsequently, Shiro Ishii's plan was supported by the Japanese military headquarters and the Japanese Kwantung Army stationed in the three northeastern provinces of China. In 1933, Shiro Ishii built a bacteriological unit in Harbin, known as Unit 731 in history. The external name is the 731st Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Force.
Bacteria are creatures that appeared much earlier than humans. Human understanding of it is still very limited. In human history, many large-scale infectious diseases have been caused by bacteria. So. The study of bacteria is still very necessary.
It's just that most of the researchers in later generations just used culture media or mice to do experiments. The crazier ones will experiment with all kinds of animals. Even so. These researchers are also often condemned and opposed by animal rights activists. This kind of opposition can be regarded as a kind of moral inflammation, although sometimes it is somewhat nonsense, but it is also the embodiment of good thoughts in human nature. Understandable.
However, a group of Japanese led by Shiro Ishii did not mean this kind of thought. The subjects of their experiments were living people! And among them. The vast majority are Chinese. And the experimental project is really miserable for even the slightest human being, and they can't bear to hear about it. In addition to the study of bacteria, Unit 731 has carried out almost all physiological and pathological experiments that humans and non-humans can think of, breaking through the bottom line of human morality.
Compared to the Japanese experiments on living people, the gas chambers of the Germans were simply weak.
The data and results obtained from these experiments have become the results of research that are unique to the Japanese. Presumably, in the future history of mankind, it will be difficult for such a cruel and inhumane experiment to occur. According to real history, these key members of Unit 731 would have joined Japanese medical organizations or major Japanese pharmaceutical companies under the protection of the Americans. lived unharmed until he died. Therefore, it is inevitable that many Japanese pharmaceutical companies in later generations used the experimental data obtained by Unit 731 with Chinese as experimental subjects.
And the truth was revealed in Japan until 1981, when the Japanese Seiichi Morimura published the book "The Devil's Feast" (i.e., "悪魔の Satiety"). However, even so, in 1997, a lawsuit filed by 180 victims of China's Unit 731 and their families against the Japanese government still did not achieve the desired result.
In August 2002, although the Tokyo District Court of Japan acknowledged the existence of Japan's Unit 731 and the acts of biological warfare it conducted, it still passed the buck on the issue of compensation.
As a Chinese who has paid attention to the progress of things in the rest of his life, his mood can no longer be simply described as angry. After Shiro Ishii's death, Chen Tian did not stop assassinating. However, all the Japanese who had something to do with bacteriological warfare died one after another. The most common cause of death is cardiac arrest. Among them were fifty-three Japanese "military doctors" with the title of doctor.
The angry Chen Tian no longer concealed the traces of the assassination, and after the heartbeat arrest of these Japanese who had infinite Chinese lives in their hands, Chen Tian searched for the notes he had hidden that recorded his experience in July 31 and various research data.
By the time the Americans finally decided that something was wrong, it was too late. Several generals and leaders of the 731 rule, as well as all important scientific researchers, died. Americans' GIs rely on weapons rather than their own strength.
Therefore, for a person like Chen Tian, there is not much of a threat. What's more, the Americans don't know the order in which Chen Xia started, and they don't even know the detailed list of Unit 731. There is no way to control and protect these people at all levels in order to obtain their research results.
The research results of Unit 731 have been applied on two scales, one in July 1939, when the Japanese and the Soviet army engaged in a large-scale battle. Kenkichi Ueda, commander of the Japanese Kwantung Army, prepared more than 2,000 artillery shells containing gangrene, typhoid fever, and cholera bacteria that Shiro Ishii had stockpiled to be fired at Soviet positions. At the same time, more than 20 kilograms of contaminants with salmonella and typhoid bacteria were thrown into the Haraha River.
Although the historical records do not record the effects of these bacteriological weapons in great detail, it should be good judging from the fact that in October 1939, the 731 bacteriological unit was awarded a certificate of merit for the first time in the history of the Japanese army as a sanitary unit.
Another time was in 1940, Shiro Ishii personally led his subordinates to scatter typhoid fever, cholera, and plague bacteria in Ningbo, Quzhou, Jinhua, Shangyu, Tangxi, Zhuji, Changde and other places. This led to a massive outbreak of plague in the area. The Chinese have died innumerable. Subsequently, Shiro Ishii went to Shanxi to arrange germ warfare.
According to post-war estimates. The number of Chinese who died in bacteriological warfare reached more than a million. Far more than the number of people who died in Japan from the atomic bomb.
And these research results, which are contrary to human nature, have not been preserved in their entirety in the end. In 1945, at the end of the war. Shiro Ishii was ordered to destroy all research materials. And at this time, the world's largest bacteriological weapons research laboratory, the station of Unit 731, was blown up. And the Chinese, who were the subjects of the experiment, were slaughtered.
After the death of five generals, including Shiro Ishii, and fifty-three Japanese "military doctors" with the title of doctor, the Americans could no longer find these data piled up with human lives. And with the serial death of dozens of high-end talents, the Japanese government and the opposition are also in an uproar. At the same time that the Japanese unanimously condemned the murderer. The murder committed by Unit 731 in China was also quietly spread by the rest of his life in the form of gossip.
This kind of behavior, which can almost subvert human nature, spreads in an explosive way almost in an instant. A few days later. It has aroused strong concern from the international community. The call for an investigation into the truth is growing louder and louder. The Japanese top brass and the Americans who sheltered the Japanese top brass felt the pressure almost instantaneously.
In order to reduce their own pressure, in response, the Americans announced to the public the news of the formation and opening of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. And promised that all the crimes of the Japanese would be tried. That's when things settled down.
Chen Tian targeted this purge of Japanese 731 scientists. It took almost two months. During this time, he was almost discovered by the Americans or the Japanese several times. Luckily, nothing happened.
After this killing, Chen Tian sank for nearly a month. When the turmoil has basically passed, I took the box of information I collected and met with the rest of my life. Yu Sheng looked at the Japanese that he didn't understand, and sighed softly.
Although the words on these notebooks and pages could not be read for the rest of my life, I could only guess them, but from the beautiful handwriting and clean pages, it can be seen that the people who wrote them down were all well-educated. From the clean pages and beautiful handwriting, I can clearly hear tens of thousands of ghosts crying and screaming in anger for the rest of my life.
This kind of beauty piled up on top of human life, the cleaner and neater it is, the more chilling it is. Like a cemetery. Yu Sheng closed these notes and said to Chen Tian: "These notes were exchanged for tens of thousands of lives in China, so they can't be easily disposed of." If we don't ruin these notes, once the news leaks, our plan will be over. The Americans are bound to turn the other cheek. But if it is ruined, I am sorry for these tens of thousands of people. ”
"So, get these notes to our island in French Polynesia as soon as possible. When the building is complete, find a few people to recite the scriptures and surpass the dead. Whether the content should be translated or not, you and Ye Wuguang will discuss it. Keep the original document, and if the Japanese flatly deny it in the future, this is the most powerful evidence. ”
Chen Tian agreed to come down and go to discuss the transportation with the transport fleet under Yu Sheng's name. This is something that has not yet seen the light of day, and it is necessary to ensure that nothing goes wrong.
After Chen Tian left, Qing Xiaoyi told Yu Sheng that she had contacted Mei Ruxuan, a Chinese judge at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. The rest of his life was overjoyed, it was almost a month earlier than he expected, and there were many things that could be arranged calmly.
The International Military Tribunal for the Far East was basically formed by the Americans. On 19 January, 1946, the US occupation forces issued the "Special Notice on the Establishment of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East." Subsequently, on February 15, 1946, the US military promulgated the Charter of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.
The International Military Tribunal for the Far East began its formal formation of the 800. The American-headed Supreme Command appointed 11 judges of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, nominated by the governments of the Allied powers, from countries that had been directly or indirectly harmed by Japan during World War II, or countries with hostile relations.
i.e. China, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, Australia, Canada, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand, India, the Philippines. It can be seen from the composition of the camps of these countries that the actual controller of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East is the Americans.
At the end of World War II, if it were not for the Marshall Plan to aid Europe, the vitality of the war-torn countries in Europe would not have been able to recover in ten or eight years. Needless to say, Britain, France, the Netherlands will also side with the Americans. Australia, Canada, and India, as nominal or former territories of the British, will undoubtedly stand with the Americans. Not to mention that Canada is really nothing more than the backyard of Americans.
In the Far East, countries that have been invaded by Japan, New Zealand basically wears the same pants as Australia, and the Philippines was the little brother of the Americans before World War II. The words of the Americans are very effective. The only ones who don't deal so well with the United States are the Soviets.
In this era, even Lao Chiang, the nominal ruler of China, had a good relationship with the Americans.
Therefore, this International Military Tribunal for the Far East is fair when it comes to justice. But when it comes to injustice, there is also an unfair side. At the very least, it is unlikely that all judges will abide by the oaths they took while in office.
- We solemnly pledge that, as judges of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, we will carry out our judicial tasks in accordance with the law and impartially, without fear, favoritism, selfish love, and in accordance with our conscience. We will never divulge or reveal the opinions and votes of anyone in our court on the verdict or conviction, and we will guarantee that everyone's opinion is an inviolable secret, and we swear to God! (To be continued.) )