Newly digitised American military archives and a fresh generation of historians are focusing attention on crimes that have faded from memory
Sapphire Dingler was shaken as the dark past emerged before her.
Dingler, a US master’s student in public history at Southern New Hampshire University, was sifting through newly digitised American archives when she stumbled upon testimony about a Japanese doctor’s grisly wartime experiments on Western prisoners in Tokyo.
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