The Nazi and Japanese human experimentation programmes : biological war crimes during WW2
Heath, Tim, 1965-2024
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Among the most appalling cruelties perpetrated throughout the course of the Second World War was undoubtedly that of human medical and military experimentation conducted upon both living and deceased human beings. The various Nazi human experimentation programmes were initially carried out not so much in the pursuit of any particular scientific discipline, but largely as a result of the Third Reich's obsession with race and eugenics. Germany's Axis ally, the Japanese Empire, notorious for its cruelty and sadism ran its own independent programmes of human experimentation such as Unit 731 where human beings were not only subject to the most appalling abuses but were injected with cocktails of poisons and/or diseases and in some instances were dissected while fully conscious without any anaesthesia being administered beforehand. This book explores what the purpose of these so-called experiments were.
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Author:
Heath, Tim, 1965-, author
Imprint:
Barnsley : Pen & Sword History, 2024.
Collation:
224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781399082099 (hbk)
Dewey class:
940.5405
LC class:
D803
Language:
English
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BRN:
3997537
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