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experiments. Victims included mainly Chines e, stateless White Russians,
Harbin Jews, Soviet prisoners captured at the borders, Mongolians, Koreans,

and Europeans accused of espionage. During the Khabarovsk Trial, Major

Iijima Yoshio admitted that he was personally responsible for subjecting at

least 40 Soviet citizens to certain human exper iments. e Chief of the

Kwantung Army Kempeitai, Major General Shirokura, had issued
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Operational Order 224, which sent 30 prisoners to Unit 731.
Attachment to the notice from the chief of the division of police ser vices

headquarter of the Kwantung gendarmer ie: a list with instructions for the

categories of persons, sent in the order “special deliver y.”