War Museum sights in China

1. Japanese Germ Warfare Experimental Base

   • Hāěrbīn, China
   • Sights › War museum

   There are museums highlighting Japanese wartime atrocities all over Dongbei, but this is one is actually set in the notorious Japanese Germ Warfare Experimental Base – 731 Division used to inflict some of those atrocities. Between 1939 and 1945, Chinese prisoners of war and civilians were frozen alive, subjected to vivisection or infected with bubonic plague, syphilis and other virulent diseases. Three to four thousand people died here in the most gruesome fashion, including Russians, Koreans, Mongolians and, it is believed, a few American airmen.

   The main building of the base is now a museum complete with photos, sculptures and exhibits of the equipment used by the…

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