During world war 2 the Japanese army performed some brutal experiments on Chinese prisoners. Treating frostbite is something that came out if those experiments. If you want more Google Unit 731, but it's pretty harrowing stuff.
The tldr is they keept really good notes about human experimentation that ended up having practical applications. The experiments were painful and violent usually resulting in death
I remember hearing sometging about one of the worst doctors the Germans had to offer that burned all of his research before the allies could get their hands on it
Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Mengele was not him that destroyed his research but the ss. Who destroyed does not change that fact that these people were some of the worst parts of humanity.
The Japanese experiments were worse, but we don't really talk about them because the Japanese scientists were given amnesty by the US in exchange for their research.
Also, the Germans were forced by the rest of the world to acknowledge what they did for decades to come (and as a result have had some of the strictest anti-Nazi laws), meanwhile Japanese schools just don't teach anything of the horrors they committed during the wars.
meanwhile Japanese schools just don't teach anything of the horrors they committed during the wars.
To be fair, most countries don't do that. The Americans and Soviets don't like talking about what their soldiers did to German, Polish and Japanese women and children during and after the war when covering WW2.
In the us I remember learning about the Japanese internment camps and the bombings which were definitely glossed over but the allied powers were on the right side of history for this one lol. It does seem like any of the bad stuff Americans did is really only focused on in history classes if it happened on American soil. What we really don’t talk about is contributing to the creation of Al quaida and destabilizing communist countries in South America
While the Internment camps were bad but definitely pretty tame compared to the Axis, I was referring to the thousands of rapes Allied soldiers committed. The Soviets and Chinese even had their own mini-Nanking where they raped and slaughtered over 1000 Japanese women and children in under two hours called the Gegenmiao massacre.
That didn't happen, Saddam among a few others is responsible for their creation. The US did however flood the region with weapons, destabilized it and allowed for jihadists to grab power by funding them in order to oppose the Soviets.
Which is a fair argument for teaching about it more, otherwise there is a lot of room for people adopting falsified narratives about what happened.
No worries, I get the intentions, I just don't believe that even more revisionism is very helpful and that the founders do deserve their "credit", even with the US enabling them.
It's a great lesson in why forcing things through might/imperialism, whatever you want to call it, is gonna have unpredictable consequences and harm for yourself.
They probably were also quite happy to call it quits after dropping a nuclear bomb on a Japanese city twice. The Americans really don't want to spread the idea that if you really want to stop a country you can just explode a nuclear bomb in a city with millions of people, and repeat until they agree to stop.
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u/CagCagerton125 2d ago
During world war 2 the Japanese army performed some brutal experiments on Chinese prisoners. Treating frostbite is something that came out if those experiments. If you want more Google Unit 731, but it's pretty harrowing stuff.