“For the 10,000-odd soldiers of the Indian Army who endured extreme torture at the hands of their Japanese captors, cannibalism was the culmination. Evidence suggests the practice was not the result of dwindling supplies, but worse, it was conducted under supervision and perceived as a power projection tool.” (War Crimes…
Some of Hitler’s most sinister accomplices extended the grossly unethical research paradigm from Dachau and Auschwitz to America where U.S. soldiers became the first “voluntary” guinea pigs in harm producing experiments, soon followed by unwitting civilians. Nerve gas: Dr. Friedrich “Fritz” Hoffmann, a chemist who synthesized poison gases and toxins for…
CIA officials were particularly interested in importing Nazi doctors and chemists with experience in “scientific” interrogation techniques—“modifying behavior through covert means” –a euphemism for torture. That goal came into being with – ARTICHOKE, MK-ULTRA, BLUEBIRD– using dangerous psychoactive chemicals to brainwash, incapacitate and control. In the 1950s Edgewood’s research focus shifted to…
Professor Takashi Tsuchiya, a professor of philosophy and medical ethics at Osaka University, is credited with initiating forthright moral examination of the taboo subject that Japanese bioethics had ignored for decades; namely, Japan’s heinous human experiments and live vivisections conducted (mostly) on Chinese people, but also Korean, Mongolian, Russian, and several American…
Dr. Huburtus Strughold, who came to be known as “The Father of American Space Medicine” was the wartime head of the Luftwaffe’s Institute for Aviation Medicine in Berlin which oversaw the heinous experiments conducted at Dachau; including freezing experiments, seawater experiments and high altitude/ low oxygen experiments. As the director…
Dr. Jing-Bao Nie has written several follow-up comments on Takashi Tsuchiya’s essay in which he compares and contrasts how the world and the Japanese people, in particular, have responded (or more accurately, denied) the atrocities committed by both Nazi and Japanese doctors. Below are excerpts from his article, “Challenges of…
Dr. Walter Schreiber headed radical interrogation techniques at Camp King. He was a Major General of the Wehrmacht who introduced lethal phenol injections “as a quick and convenient means of executing troublemakers.” He worked closely with high ranking doctors who conducted freezing experiments at Auschwitz and chemical and bone experiments at Ravensbrueck…
Those who defend Operation Paperclip point to the achievements of those Nazi technological masterminds—in aerospace, rocket and guided missile technology, radar and infra-red sniper technology radiation, submarine warfare, incendiary bombs (including napalm, jellied gasoline) – mostly achievements in warfare technology. What the project’s defenders fail to mention is the evil…
The first discovery of a mass grave near one of Dr. Shiro Ishii’s infamous laboratories was made in 1989. Then, in 2006, Toyo Ishii, a former military nurse came forward to reveal that she and colleagues had buried numerous corpses and body parts during the weeks following Japan’s surrender in…
House of Sharing, a Korean living memorial with nine “comfort women” survivors “Yi Ok-seon is a frail old lady with a walking frame who has difficulty speaking. But her eyes, when you meet them, are still sharp. She says she was 15 when a Korean and a Japanese man forcibly…
“America, which prided itself on being a safe haven for the persecuted, became — in some small measure — a safe haven for persecutors.” (DOJ Report. Striving for Accountability in the Aftermath of the Holocaust, 2006) In 2010, a secret 600-page Department of Justice report by the Office of Special Investigations…
The Emperor Hirohito was the longest reigning monarch in Japan’s history (1926 –1989); his reign is known as the Showa era. The release of an official, 61-volumes (12,000 pages) biography of Emperor Hirohito, in preparation since his death in 1989, continues to maintain the fictional image of Hirohito as a…
