Asian Auschwitz

                After reading this article, I was sick to my stomach. I will never understand how a person can do such inhumane things and get away with it. The Anti-Epidemic Water Supply and Purification Bureau, also known as “unit 731”, ran by a terrible man named Shiro Ishii has to be one of the most terrible things I have ever heard of.

                This organization was beyond sick. I believe that these people were doing much worse things than the Nazis. The humans that were held there were known as “maruta” but they were more commonly called “logs” because people thought that Unit 731 was a lumber mill. The way that these people got treated is unimaginable. I could never even imagine how scary and painful it was for them. The torture that they got was beyond inhumane. Things like getting hung upside down to see how long it would take for them to choke and die were done. They also did some experiments like exposing phosgene gas to their lungs to see the effect it had on them.

                Sometimes, the prisoners would get taken into a room and the worker would take out a scalpel and dissect them piece by piece, while they are very alive. They would finally die once they got to the heart. It said that when the prisoners were getting taken to a room to basically get torn apart, they wouldn’t even fight it. They wouldn’t fight it because they were very aware that they had absolutely no chance at living. So they would let the worker strap them down without freaking out. They began to scream once the surgeon got the scalpel out. They screamed and screamed but eventually it stopped. I could never imagine how terrible that would be, knowing that it’s the end of your life and there is nothing that you can do about it, and even worse. . . you are going to get killed in one of the most painful, inhumane ways possible. How terrible would that be?

                Ishii and his men were doing their terrible experiments on all kinds of people. For example: Chinese, Koreans, Soviets, Mongolians, and they also had plans to poison American cattle so they would become worthless and possible even kill thousands of American’s because of disease. They also had a plan to send a Kamikaze bomb to San Diego with lots of airplanes before the war was finished. Ishii and his men killed approximately 12,000 men, women, and children, and not one person from their facility got out alive. What I still am having a hard understanding of is how in the world was a murderer of 12,000 people able to live his life without getting into trouble with the law? He should’ve been caught and sentenced to death.

                This story has me very shocked, seeing how truly insane some people are. I will never understand how someone can possibly be that terrible. Everything that Ishii did was beyond sick, and there was absolutely no explanation for it.