Chapter 11 Chapter 8: The Devil Who Eats All Day Long

Unit 731 never sees miscellaneous grains such as sorghum, millet, and corn in their daily meals, and even soybeans are served as a staple food on the table, not necessarily once a month. In fact, Unit 731 was the most extravagantly fed unit in the Imperial Japanese Army. A person who used to work in the accounting department brought back a rare record of Unit 731 after the war called "One Common Recipe" per person per meal, which seemed to be notes written for the purpose of fabricating the army budget. Senior Officer: Breakfast: egg tofu soup or diced pork miso soup, grilled dried fish, pickled mustard greens, prunes and other pickles, fruit, white rice or bread, coffee.

Lunch: soup or orange juice, steak, fried prawns, pork boiled burdock, pickles, fruit, white rice or bread, cold drinks, coffee. Dinner: beer or other wine, tuna sashimi, pork pea tofu soup, radish stewed salty salmon, pickles, fruit, white rice, sweets, coffee.The appointed officers are as follows: Breakfast: Stir-fried vegetable sauce soup with diced meat, bean sprouts in vinegar, pickled mustard greens, prunes and other pickles, white rice. Lunch: Stir-fried pork with peanuts, braised pork, pickles, fruit, white rice, and sometimes cold drinks. Dinner: raw squid slices, scrambled eggs with onions, sweet and sour pork slices, white rice, sweets, green tea.

According to the memories of the former army personnel, this is a record made in the spring of 1944, but the exact time is unknown. "Mountain mustard", "steak", and "bread" are all marked with Chinese characters. But at a glance, it is known that this is 731 A luxurious recipe for troops. Wartime slogans and ration tickets such as "I don't want anything until the war is won" and "Not enough, not enough, because I can't think of a way enough" suppress the desires of the whole of Japan. In 1944, the "common people's recipe" began to become pimple soup and sweet potato mixed with taro leaves every day. When I heard that the "common recipe" only had steak and fried prawns, I was really surprised.

Based on the explanation of the former troops, I will make some explanations.Among the members of Unit 731, those with their families can cook and eat by themselves, but single team members and researchers and scholars who go to work alone have been eating in the army cafeteria.People with families also often eat lunch in the army canteen. There are 8 professional chefs with civilian qualifications in Unit 731. Not only are there chefs, but the cooking materials used by the chefs are also very advanced.Fish and meat such as pork, beef and frozen fish are served at three meals a day.At that time, the Japanese soldiers on the front line were only rationed sweets once or twice a month-milk candy, biscuits, sweet natto (a kind of sweet tempeh), sugar buns, yokan, etc., but they could eat these things casually in Unit 731.

The three rice meals are all out-and-out "snow white" rice.In order to "not forget the poverty in the country", rice with soybeans is eaten symbolically once a month, but many people still pick out the soybeans in the rice and do not eat them. Fruits are also plentiful.In summer, thick-fleshed cantaloupe, a specialty of Northeast China, is delicious. In winter, although there are no fresh fruits, there are also frozen oranges, raisins, dried dates, and dried apples on the dining table.Now a "cold drink" refers to ice cream, but at that time it referred to frozen fruit.

The so-called bread refers to the unique steamed buns in China, as well as coffee.In winter, military personnel specially put the soda out of the window to freeze it into popsicles before eating it while sitting in front of the heater. "The pork and vegetable miso soup for breakfast is really delicious. I chopped up radish and carrots, and put a lot of pork about five centimeters in size, and added garlic miso. I would burp after eating a bowl. ... There are also people from poor peasant families in the army. They eat such high-end meals for three meals a day, and they are happier than anything... Some people even said very seriously: "This big bowl of pork is good even once. , I really want my mother to try it too." Said a former army member from Chiba Prefecture."

There's a reason there's three premium meals a day, because Unit 731 has been producing a lot of bacteria.Bacteria love nutrient-dense broth, eggs, sugars, and starches just as much as people do. Therefore, Unit 731 received a large amount of meat, starch, fructose, flour and rice flour as an indispensable "weapon" for combat.To fatten rats, fatten "Maruta", and produce a large number of poisonous buns mixed with typhoid bacteria also requires rich high-grade materials. What army doctors and researchers have in common are thin legs and big stomachs. This is not only because they are not good at military training, but also because they eat too much and are too good.Some civil servants had to have their trousers made to order because of their potbellies; some officers were too fat to ride horses.When the whole of Japan is starving, the demons of unit 731 have been full all day long.

one The green leaves are green like blue waves, Floating in the endless wilderness. Recalling the wonderful dreams of the past, Aroused the sound of the piano in my heart. two East Village is my hometown, Happy second home. Bells rang through the rolling hills, The crescent moon rose amidst the sound of insects. This is the award-winning work of members of Unit 731: "Eastern Village Ditty". At the beginning of this book, I mentioned that Unit 731 was changed and changed. It was originally called "Kamo Unit", and later changed to "Dongxiang Unit", and then changed to "Manchurian Unit 731".

The army has always called the officer's dormitory area (including single dormitory) of the reinforced concrete three-story building (part of which is a two-story building) in Unit 731 "East Village". Unit 731 is the only unit stationed in the wilderness 20 kilometers south of Harbin.In order to keep military secrets, military personnel and their families have great inconvenience in life. Although it takes one hour to take a military car, you can reach the beautiful downtown area of ​​Harbin where elm trees and horse manure coexist, but the base camp of life is still in Dongcun Village.

Due to the nature of the army, it had to become an isolated and closed village.However, for many years, nearly 3,000 soldiers are in great need of cultural, entertainment and sports activities in order to live in the isolated village against bacteria and "Marutai". In Dongcun Village, when it comes to the Obon Festival, the Obon dance is performed.The lyricist of the "East Village Minor" introduced at the beginning of this section is T, a member of the Investigation Section of the General Affairs Department. During the Obon dance, female civil servants also participated. Only then did they take off the Western-style trousers they usually go to work, change into a single kimono, tie a narrow belt, and join the dancing ranks with a gorgeous posture.

Recently, Japanese words such as "legging pants" and "national defense color" are not only not "dead words", but there is even a tendency to restore them.What uncomfortable clothes it was then!Here, explain the dress situation of the troops! The uniforms of the army personnel are uniformly yellowish-brown called the national defense color.Civilian staff wear open-collar clothing, which is slightly lighter than tan, and they usually wear shirts and military-colored ties.No other colors are allowed. Civilian clothing has epaulets, armbands with the Yamagata symbol, and shooting stars embroidered on the chest to indicate rank in the unit.People can judge its level from the number and color of stars. White stars are employees; yellow stars are commissioned officers; purple stars are senior officials. Employees, commissioned officers, and senior officers are all at the level of officials at the time. Almost none of the members of Unit 731 are soldiers. They are scholars or researchers assigned to study germ warfare. They are classified as civilians, but they have the same official titles as civilians. The epaulettes, armbands and badges worn by civilian personnel are to identify each other's rank within the army.When you meet a superior official in the process of marching, you must salute (you must stop and salute if you encounter a direct superior), and you should absolutely obey the orders of your superiors. The lower body is breeches and boots.There is a yellow star on the front band of the hat.It is allowed to take off hats and shoes indoors; in the laboratory, they are replaced with white work clothes, but outdoors, hats and boots are required.In the war zone, personnel above employees must wear knives, and it is also stipulated that officials above commissioned officers must wear knives in normal times (that is, in Unit 731). The commander of the army, Shiro Ishii, is a lieutenant general in the military. Apart from him, there are also many personnel who have military status, but there are also those who have "reversed" from military personnel to civilian personnel. This rank status, which is often forgotten during Bon dance or sports activities, has the effect of bringing both military and civilian personnel back to common people, thereby bringing peace among troops. . To this end, feature films are screened in Building 63 every Friday night.In summer, there are Bon dance parties or wrestling conferences; in autumn, sports games, drama activities or concerts are held; in spring, baseball games are held or singing and dancing troupes are invited from China to perform condolence performances, etc.There is also a crew of female civil servants in the army, and they perform programs such as "Military God--Commander Yamazaki", which are very popular with everyone. In addition, in order to prevent the family members of the troops from homesickness, in Dongcun Village, family gardens are encouraged. Although the "East Village Minor" has a brisk melody and rhythm, and the female civil servants are so gorgeous in single kimonos, 731 is 731 after all. In the center of the military facilities-Building 7 and Building 8, "Maru" is detained. Too", there are "freshly chopped heads" in the array room, and plague bacteria are everywhere on the first floor of the headquarters. Wearing all uniforms of national defense colors in normal times, when you don't care about being connected with culture and sports, it is the time to use the sugar coating of culture to paint the cruelty of the devil as camouflage. In the autumn of 1943 (some team members said it was the spring of 1944), a mysterious incident occurred that reflected the decadent state of the cadres: the body of a female civilian was found in the dormitory of senior officials. The name of the female civil servant is Otsuki, and she is a class member of the General Affairs Division of the General Affairs Department.Otsuki, a woman of medium build and plump, is a single woman who has just turned 20 with a sexy bust and waist.A former colleague who knew her said: "Otsuki is a girl from Okayama Prefecture. She always works hard. Not only does she do office work, but she is also good at cooking and sewing, as well as calligraphy and flower arrangement. She cleverly inserted the cosmos that was blooming in the official dormitory. She was a figure who attracted many men. This incident happened just when she suddenly lost energy and people were wondering." There are several sets of dormitories for family members in Dongcun Village for female civil servants. The body of a woman in Otsuki was found in a room in the dormitory of a certain senior official.The discoverer was a full-time handyman who frequented the officer's quarters, but the exact circumstances are unknown.It is said that a certain woman in Dayue wore western-style leggings, put her hand on her throat, and showed a distressed expression on her face. When she died, she was spitting foam in her mouth. At first glance, she seemed to have died after taking some medicine.After the news of the sudden death of a woman in Da Yue came out, the troops were discussing quietly, thinking that there was a big doubt, and she was probably killed! There are indeed signs that make people suspect that she was killed. Although a certain woman in Otsuki works in the General Affairs Division of the General Affairs Department, she also serves as the maid of Technician Y in the Yoshimura class. Technician Y is a scholar who went to work alone from Japan and lives in the senior official dormitory. The body of a certain woman in Otsuki was found in a room of this senior official dormitory.At that time, there were many people in the army who went to work alone, and Technician Y was one of them.In order to take care of the lives of senior officials, Manchurian handymen were hired.On the orders of superiors, female civilians of the troops are also sometimes sent to serve.A female clerk who worked with her thought "she must be pregnant".In this way, the influence is further expanded. The body of a woman in Da Yue was immediately dissected, and it was confirmed that she was pregnant.Who is the father of the fetus?At the same time as the investigation, the superior leaders of the army were nervous about the truth of the drug that became the cause of death. After investigations on the stomach and liver, it was found that a certain woman in Da Yue had swallowed a cyanic acid compound.Cyanic acid compound - it is only available in the grass-flavored class (research pharmacology) of Unit 731. This is a new type of poison developed by the laboratory.However, the research room is located in the "kou" office building, and female civil servants are strictly prohibited from entering and leaving there.If a woman in Otsuki wanted to obtain this cyanate compound, there was only one way: to sneak into the research room in the dead of night and steal it from the tightly locked medicine cabinet. There was no other way.After investigation, no signs of poison being stolen were found.There is only one possibility of obtaining the poison taken by a certain woman in Da Yue: members of the grass-flavored class or other classes closely related to the grass-flavored class directly or indirectly entrust someone to take out the poison to a certain woman in Da Yue, or Force her to take it. After autopsy, the facts that have been clarified one after another have concentrated the doubts within the army on one point: it may be that the person who impregnated a certain girl in Da Yue explained to her the reason and forced her to commit suicide because it was difficult to deal with; it may also be that the drug was mixed with a drink Li or tricked her into giving her medicine for pregnancy reactions or abortion pills.It is said that the superior of the army called Technician Y, and after a brief inquiry about the situation, he was quickly transferred back to China.This is the end of the explanation of finding out the cause of death of a certain woman in Otsuki. "After the death of Unit 731, it has become the practice of this unit to send the personnel to the Harbin crematorium for solemn cremation. However, only Otsuki, after the dissection of her body, the superior of the unit, like Maruta, took her away. The corpse was burned in the cremator. At that time, the troops discussed privately that maybe it was because the baby was just growing bones, and they were afraid of discovering the existence of the fetus or preventing suspected poisoning!" Da Yue's death is just an example. , in the dormitories of senior officials, wives and young employees fornicated, cadres seduced female civil servants, and other unhealthy practices were rampant. "Since Commander Shiro Ishii took the lead in misbehavior, it is natural that the cadres all learn from him," said a former member of Unit 731.

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