![]() ![]() Among them were plague, anthrax, dysentery, typhoid, paratyphoid and cholera, according to a paper by Dr Robert K D Peterson for Montana University. Numerous diseases were studied in order to determine their potential use in warfare. Led by General Shiro Ishii, the lead physician at UNIT 731, the death toll of these brutal experiments is unknown, but as many as 200,000 may have died, estimates Historian Sheldon H Harris according to a 1995 New York Times report. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, the Japanese Imperial Army conducted biological warfare and medical testing on civilians, mostly in China. ![]() Shiro Ishii, commander of Unit 731 (Image credit: Wikipedia) He died in Brazil in 1979, of a heart attack, his final years spent lonely and depressed according to The Guardian. Some of the doctors responsible for these atrocities were later tried as war criminals, but Mengele escaped to South America. She eventually injected the child with a lethal dose of morphine to keep it from suffering longer. One woman, Ruth Elias, had her breasts tied off with string so SS doctors could see how long it took her baby to starve, according to an oral history collected by the Holocaust Museum. Countless prisoners were subjected to experimental sterilization procedures. Others were forced into freezing temperatures and low-pressure chambers for aviation experiments, according to the Jewish Virtual Library. The Nazis used prisoners to test treatments for infectious diseases and chemical warfare. He also collected the eyes of his dead "patients," according to the U.S. Mengele combed the incoming trains for twins upon which to experiment, hoping to prove his theories of the racial supremacy of Aryans. Perhaps the most infamous evil experiments of all time were those carried out by Josef Mengele, an SS physician at Auschwitz during the Holocaust. The entrance to the Auschwitz concentration camp (Image credit: Getty/ Bettmann) ![]()
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