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The US government made several deals with some inhuman characters after the war. Yes, the science was (potentially) valuable, because there is no way that a moral human would perform the experiments, but granting immunity may have been too much. It’s past time that these people are recognized for what they are.
Ishii Shiro is a prime example.
He was the head of Unit 731 and did things like live and unanesthetized vivisections on people, bioloogical weapons testing on children, etc.. Which is among the milder things. The US made a deal for all his data, and he lived his last years in peace and anonymity as a free man. He actually worked for free as a local doctor for a period.
If you look up information about him in Japanese sources, most of it is apparently all about how was such a nice man who helped people, and basically that he did a little oopsie in the 40s.
That's one of the worse parts, they didn't really gain any of the knowledge they hoped for:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
From what I've gathered, the experiments of unit 731 were more like shengele, more focussed on cruelly than actual science
Not to mention there was often no method or recorded data, so even calling them "science" of any kind is doubious.
At least he repaid some of his debt to society.
I don't see how grant immunity, sign documents, transfer them to US - take all documentation and knowledge, higher court later declares the immunity invalid, execute them for war crimes was off the table. It would likely be legal. It would surely be less immoral than letting them free.
What, did the US generals not want to have a bad rep with future war criminals??
'Gosh no we can't do that - we made a pinky swear to some of the worst people who ever lived'.
I mean, that would work once or twice, but after that I don't think remaining war criminals would agree to the deal, knowing their predecessors were executed.
Right? They figured that out a decade or so later.
Heck Project Paperclip is why the USA fell, brought over all the nazi scientists and used Witness Protection to dissapear them into the populace, growing a bu ch of nazi families.
The USA fell? In WWII?
Given how many Nazis are kicking around these days, I'm starting to think that might have been the case. The 3rd reich just played the long game.