Two doctors of World War II that
most people don’t know about are Dr. Joseph Mengele and Dr. Shiro Ishii. These two
men you may or may not know and I would go out on a limb and say most of you
have no idea who they are. These men were doctors trying to find out ways to
test ideas that they had conjured up in their minds. What better way for they
thought to do it was to test them on people that the German or Japanese armies
were already going to execute. These men tested theories that would make your
heart skip a beat hearing about them and how horrible they were, but this is
one of the good reasons we have history is to learn from mistakes of the past
like theirs and never make them again. I suppose I should tell you a little
about these men and why they are so horrible.
First off are a few things that are
very similar about these men. They both were skilled doctors before the war began;
the military found them and wanted them to test their hypothesis on some of
their prisoners. For instance the Germans always wanted more Aryians which were
blonde hair blue eyed people so they had Mengele work on trying to genetically
change the prisoners that had twins to make more Aryians. Through most of these
procedures he ended up killing off most of the little kids and twins. Now Ishii
on the other hand also tortured his prisoners by testing out theories we know
today such as putting them in a hypothermic state, giving them frostbite,
simulating heart attacks and strokes, forced abortions, and vivisections. He mostly
worked with psychological ideas but he also worked with the idea of a germ
warfare where he would unleash plagues and other devastating diseases to kill
of entire populations.
The reason these two men were not
treated the same way after the war was due to the different ways they handled
their situation. Mengele wasn’t not remorseful for what he had done, and that
eventually landed him in the court system. On the other hand Ishii had made an
earlier agreement that if he told everything about his practices and about germ
warfare that they couldn’t not jail him after the war was finished.
These two men were very bad people
and I believe they both should have been jailed for what they had done and
honestly I believe they should have been executed as well. On a final note, I believed
that the Nanking was worse for the prisoners than the holocaust. In the Nanking
there was much more brutality such as the raping and beating of the ones being raped.
In the holocaust they made the prisoners
usually work and they got fed less but the torture aspect wasn’t nearly as bad
as being raped to death or near death during the Nanking. I enjoyed the movie
and am glad we watched it, it helped me learn more about WWII and what really
happened.
