Museum reveals details of POW live dissections
A new museum at Kyushu University in Japan reveals horrific details about the live dissections of allied soldiers during World War Two.
One of its exhibits tells the story of eight American POWs, who were crew on board a US bomber that was shot down in May 1945.
They were taken to the university's medical school in Fukuoka, where they were used for experiments.
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One display reveals how a soldier was given intravenous injections of seawater to see if it could be used as a substitute for sterile saline solution.
Doctors also dissected part of a soldier’s brain to determine whether epilepsy could be controlled through surgery, while several other prisoners had parts of their livers removed to see if they could survive.
All eight POWs died during their imprisonment.
At the end of the war, doctors destroyed their remains to try and hide evidence of the acrostics that had occurred.
23 individuals were found guilty of performing vivisection at an Allied War Crimes tribunal in 1948.
Five were sentenced to death but later had their convictions commuted to just two years.
By 1958, all of those found guilty had been released.
In March this year, a group of professors decided to speak out about what had happened at the university and open a museum exhibit to shed light on one of the darkest chapters in Japan’s history.
