MOSCOW (TASS): The FSB of Russia will present declassified archival documents about Japan’s plans to use bacteriological weapons against the USSR during World War II, the creation of an extensive production base and testing of bacteriological weapons. This was reported to TASS by the Public Relations Center (DSP) of the FSB of Russia.
“On September 6, the central archive of the FSB of Russia within the framework of the project” With-out a statute of limitations “at the international scientific and practical forum” Khabarovsk trial: historical significance and modern challenges “will present declassified archival materials of the trial of Japanese war criminals in 1949,” the DSP reported …
“Trophy documents, interrogation protocols and personal testimonies of soldiers, officers and civilians of the Japanese army testify to the presence in Manchuria in the immediate vicinity of the borders of the Soviet Union of an extensive base for the production of bacteriological weapons and plans to use them against the USSR and other countries, as well as the facts of its use. applications, including tests on living people, “- noted in the FSB.
The documents of the so-called Nuremberg on the Amur will be shown to the general public for the first time at the historical and documentary exhibition “Far Eastern Nuremberg – a documentary chronicle of the Khabarovsk trial”, held in the House of Official Receptions of the Government of the Khabarovsk Territory.
Khabarovsk trial
The open trial of the Military Tribunal of the Primorsky Military District held on December 25-30, 1949 in Khabarovsk over twelve former Japanese military personnel who served in the Kwantung Army, including five generals, became an expression of the principled position of the Soviet Union in relation to the bacteriological threat and condemnation of crimes against humanity which were not taken into account by the Tokyo Tribunal, held from May 3, 1946 to November 12, 1948.
“Despite the fact that the Khabarovsk trial was open in nature and its materials were published in the media, a significant part of the documents has not yet been available to researchers,” the FSB’s DSP said. The materials collected during the investigation, preparation and conduct of the Khabarovsk trial were stored in archives, access to which was limited until this year.
“The documents selected for the exhibition undeniably testify to Japan’s violation of the treaty with the Soviet Union on mutual neutrality and the preparation by Japanese militarists of war in the Far East,” the DSP noted.
The testimony of the members of the command of the Kwantung Army (former Commander-in-Chief of the Kwantung Army, General Yamada Otozoo, Lieutenant General of the Medical Service Kajitsuka Ryuji, Major General of the Medical Service Kawashima Kiyoshi and others) reveal the truth about the planned and already committed crimes against peace and humanity on the part of militaristic Japan.
The general public will also be presented for the first time with documentary materials about the Hogoin camp for Russians located near Harbin (translated into Russian as the Shelter), from where the captives were sent as test subjects to Japanese military units established in Manchuria (detachments 731 and 100), engaged in the preparation of bacteriological and chemical warfare.
