The Japanese Plan To Win WWII With Flies & Fleas
The Horrific Story Of Unit 731
“The fellow knew that it was over for him, and so he didn’t struggle when they led him into the room and tied him down, but when I picked up the scalpel, that’s when he began screaming.“I cut him open from the chest to the stomach, and he screamed terribly, and his face was all twisted in agony. He made this unimaginable sound, he was screaming so horribly. But then finally he stopped. This was all in a day’s work for the surgeons, but it really left an impression on me because it was my first time.” — Excerpt from an interview with an anonymous 72 year old former medical assistant with the Japanese Army at Unit 731 by the NY Times
In the summer of 1940, an outbreak of bubonic plague spread in the Chinese city of Xinging. A disease epidemic breaking out in a war-torn city isn’t really anything out of the ordinary. However, there might have been something much more than nature and terrible sanitary conditions at play. (1)
This appearance of the plague may have been caused by a Japanese weapons program.
A secretive Japanese military group called Unit 731 had been working to weaponize various diseases. This group believed they had achieved a breakthrough by spreading plague and cholera…
