China in Beijing found that Japanese aggressors photographic evidence (photo) | Japan germ warfare _ news

Recently, the Japanese army in North China a record-old photo of unit 1855 in auction transactions. Experts said this is the first germ warfare troops in beiping's image data, valuable in future studies.

According to historical records, in 1939, the forces to "prevention of water", on behalf of the troops in Beijing's Temple of heaven God's Music Department. As with Unit 731, the force cultivate plague bacteria, highly infectious diseases such as cholera, typhoid bacteria strains, carried out a large number of human experiments. Japanese troops quickly destroy all materials after the war, this force had been unknown.

Huachen auction house image manager Li Xin introduction, this batch of a total of 165 pictures at present was Chinese who asked not to be named out, "he is research-oriented, research results will be fed back to the community, it's a good thing. ”

Renmin University Professor Wu Yuexing believes that photos can be found to fill the blank of domestic research on the Japanese troops stationed in the North.

Hebei provincial Academy of Social Sciences Institute of history of Xie Zhonghou, a researcher at the Japanese army in North China-1855 bacterium forces for almost 20 years. He said, the Japanese unit 1855 in North China also has branches in North China, Shanxi, Jinan branch offices and a few fragmentary material, but Beijing Department without leaving any physical, material, historical significance of these photos is very large.

For photos, and no obvious bacterial experiments or the Japanese human experiments, Xie Zhonghou explained that Japanese experiments very confidential, positions higher officer to see, and "burn after reading", the Japanese army discipline, the Lieutenant could not shoot. But photos of this force is commendable, in support of the Japanese bacteria troops there.

And the bacterial forces photo also appeared in the auction were a series of Japan videos with aggression in China, is the huachen Auction House have been collected from domestic and foreign collectors.

For preparing the thematic reason, Li Xin said, "How is film reflecting the war before, and that is reflected in both the tragic scenes of war, we want to have a new perspective, using this new language to render the image of this history. As civil society organizations, we have a responsibility to culture, combed from the historical level. ”

(Edit: SN098)
15:47 July 05, 2014 Xinhua News Agency