Translator’s Note: I was talking with an academic collegaue in North-East China who asked me to research Russian language sources covering the Imperial Japanese POW Camp established at Mukden. Below is some basic data – but I know Red Aemy soldiers were dissected alive and used in all kinds of experiments. These Allied POWs were transferred to the Japanese after being captured by the Nazi Germans in the USSR between 1941-1944 (the Soviet Red Army liberated the area during late 1945). After the war – we in the UK were not told about this war crime – despite the USSR being our loyal Ally. Japan got away with it due to the US colonising a defeated Japan and using it a fascistic bulwark against a Socialist China. This is where prisoners from all backgrounds – the Chinese suffered terribly – were “Reversed Punched” [Gyaku Zuki] to death (by Japanese Karate practitioners) – whilst tied to posts. As a means to side-line Chinese culture in the West – the US then spread Karate all over Europe and the Americas – as if it were a good thing.
Of course, none of use knew this at the time – with many good Westerners learning this art whilst believing the Chinese people who live near them did not possess any martial culture of their own. After the left-leaning President Carter recognised the PRC in 1979 – Japan’s Karate Empire fell apart – as Westerners travelled to China to learn gongfu. Many Westerners were shocked to learn that Japanese “Karate” had originally been transmitted to Okinawa (a part of China for over a thousand years) from Fujian – before travelling to Japan. The Japanese altered these Chinese arts so that they took on the chrematistics of Japanese sword-play. ACW (4.12.2025)
From a Russian Language article – English (Automatic) Translation
Mukden concentration camp – frwiki.wiki
The Mukden concentration camp was a Japanese concentration camp (but based on Chinese territory) reserved for Allied prisoners during World War II. Nicknamed the “Auschwitz of the East,” it has long been absent from public discussion, but is now increasingly the subject of research.
The camp, whose fairly complete remains have survived to this day, is today located within a city in Shenyang, the capital of Liaoning Province in China.
Type and size of camp
Created to house Allied prisoners of war during World War II, this camp housed until 1945 American, British, Canadian, Australian and some Dutch and French prisoners of war.
The 45,355 m2 camp consisted of three barracks, a hospital, and a building for Japanese army officers. In addition, there were 20 buildings for prisoners, including kitchens, canteens, toilets and a warehouse.
There were violations in the camp
Allies who managed to leave the camp at the end of the war sometimes belatedly spoke of the abuse suffered by some prisoners.
Among them, serious injuries were noted, such as cremation alive from a flamethrower, boiling alive, removal of lungs, pieces of liver, or inoculation of viruses to analyze the effects and test vaccines.
Shiro Ishii, who was in charge of bacteriological weapons research during the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Mukden concentration camp is relatively unknown in Europe for a number of reasons. First of all, it arises from a conflict that did not pit Europeans against the Japanese. Thus, there were almost no European prisoners of war left in this camp.
Second, ignorance of the place is due to the broad amnesty granted to the Japanese by the Americans at the end of the war in exchange for forcibly pacifying Japan (and, in particular, its future inability to declare war). . Therefore, some details of this war in this part of the world have hardly been studied. Historians have been seriously looking at the existence of this camp for only a few years.
Museum of Memory
The Chinese government established a 12,000 m2 Memorial Museum in 2008, which today houses more than 200 different documents.
Recommendations
- (en) “Behind the doors of ‘eastern Auschwitz'”, on http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn, 29 August 2014.
- ” When the Japanese cut through living American pilots who remained behind enemy lines. Read more on http://www.atlantico.fr/decryptage/quand-japonais-oprait-dissections-pilotes-americains-tombes-derriere-lignes -ennemies-2080896.html #6qDCBM99bH1V0PIT.99″, on http://www.atlantico.fr ,8 April 2015.
- HUDSON, Christopher, “Doctors of Debauchery” in: The Daily Mail, March 2, 2007 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-439776/Doctors-Depravity.html
- HARRIS, Sheldon, Factories… op. cit., pp. 151-176.
- HUDSON, Christopher, Doctors of Debauchery in: The Daily Mail, March 2, 2007 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-439776/Doctors-Depravity.html
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