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incubator room, 1, dimensions 5X5X3 metres; 2 cylindrical autoclaves, 1.5 metres in diam
eter and 2.5 metres long; incubators, about 40-50; steam sterilizers, 40-50, Koch boilers,
about 40-50, and for cooking media, the detachment had large retorts, but how many I do not
remember.

My statement has been recorded correctly and the record was read to me in Japanese.

Sato

INTERROGATORS

Military Prosecutor, Member of the staff

Lieutenant Colonel of the Office of the Ministry

of Jurisprudence BUSHU YEV for Internal Affairs

for the Khabarovsk Territory, Major AGR YZKOV

Interpreter KORNILOV

RECORD OF INTERROGATION
OF ACCUSED HIRAZAKURA ZENSAKU

December 6, 1949 City of Khabarovsk

The interrogation is conducted through interpreter Y e 1 g i n, who was warned of his
liability to prosecution for deliberately false interpretation under Art. 95 of the Criminal Code
of the R.S.F.S.R.

Signed: Yelgin

Question: You have had read to you the order to charge you with a crime under Art. 1 of
the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. of April 19, 1943. Do you
understand the substance of the charge brought against you, and do you plead guilty to it?

Answer: Yes, I fully plead guilty to the charge brought against me under Art. 1 of the
Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. of April 19, 1943, and on the
substance of it I wish to state the following.

It is true that from June 1942 to August 1945 I served in Detachment 100 of the Kwantung
Army, the chief function of which, apart from taking prophylactic measures, was to

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