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Question: Well, what was the result of this experiment?

Answer: Most of these men contracted typhoid. Exactly what percentage I do not
remember, at all events 12 or 13 of the men died.

Question: Were wicked experiments of this kind on human beings to test the effectiveness
of infection performed many times?

Answer: I myself know of one other case of such infection, this was at the end of 1944 or
beginning of 1945, when infection was caused by similar methods.

Question: Did you take part in experiments in contaminating fruit with typhoid germs?

Answer: Yes, I did.

Question: Tell us about these experiments.

Answer: I do not remember exactly in what year it was, 1943 or 1944, when experiments
were made in contaminating fruit; these were melons and cantaloups; this was just the period
of their ripening. Some melons and cantaloups were inoculated with bacteria and
contaminated, some were left uncontaminated.

After this fruit was contaminated with typhoid with the aid of a syringe, the density of the
bacteria was tested; for this purpose the fruit was taken to the laboratory and there analyzed
to see how much these bacteria had multiplied in the fruit. After this test, when the presence
of a large quantity of bacteria was established, the fruit was given to eat to five or six Chinese
and Manchurians.

Question: What happened to the unfortunate people who ate this fruit?

Answer: All were infected.

Question: Thus, all those who ate the typhoid-infected fruit fell sick?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Tell us, do you know anything about the experiments performed on the
detachment's proving ground near Anta Station?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Tell the Court what you know.

Answer: Experiments on the proving ground at Anta Station were performed in 1944, in
the autumn and winter. In these experiments the germs of typhoid and plague, and also of

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