The phrase “comfort women” is a controversial term that refers to an estimated 200,000 girls and women who were recruited as prostitutes by the Imperial Japanese Army during the 1930s and 1940s. Though the majority were Korean and Chinese, Filipina, Taiwanese, Indonesian, Burmese, Dutch, Australian, and some Japanese women were also abducted….
The truth is slowly making itself known regarding Japan’s ghastly treatment of American prisoners of war during WWII. After more than five decades of denial, prevarication and outright lying on the part of its government, its military, its neonationalist historians and corporate leaders, Japan’s criminal behavior has been ferreted out…
Paperclip Nazi scientists were highly sought—in particular by the air force and the CIA. They offered the scientists the opportunity to continue and expand their dark secret work under U.S. government auspices. Dr. Harry Armstrong, surgeon general of the U.S. Air Force, employed 58 Nazi doctors under Paperclip at the…
Inasmuch as these CIA recruits were war criminals, they could not enter the U.S. legally. In February 1947, the first set of Paperclip scientists’ visa requests were denied after their dossiers were reviewed and rejected by both Departments of State and Justice. Navy Captain, Bosquet Wev, Deputy Director of the…
“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…
