Prisoners Of War Research Paper

You’ve just been captured during World War II. You are taken prisoner. You’d probably rather die than face the consequences of being a prisoner of war. The Axis Powers were already known for the terrible things they did, but most people didn’t know the demented things they did to Prisoners of War (POWs).
To start with, some prisoners of war were used as medical experiments. University doctors injected one anesthetized prisoner with seawater to see if it worked as a substitute for a sterile saline solution. Other airmen had parts of their organs removed, with one deprived of an entire lung to gauge the effects of surgery on the respiratory system. In another experiment, doctors drilled through the skull of a live prisoner, apparently to determine if epilepsy could be treated by removal of part

The Japanese would then test new biological weapons such as plague cultures or bombs filled with plague-infested fleas on them. Other studies involved exposing human guinea pigs, called ‘logs’ by the Japanese scientists to their limits. Humans were locked inside pressure chambers to test how much the body could take before their eyes popped out (Experiments). They were also subject to unheated cells in cold winters.
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“It's not unreal to me yet, though it might get that way soon. It still feels very real. And not even horrible -- the dead are just the dead. I am convinced that the living people they once were would have been proud of their protective bodies hoodwinking their murderers to save someone else. But it's not civilized. There is something indecent about it -- really foully indecent. The civilized Rose-person in me, who still seems to exist beneath the layers of filth, knows this.
I have become so indifferent about the dead.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Rose Under Fire ( Quotes About Prisoner Of