Unit 731 was Japan’s most horrifying secret of World War II — a government-run facility where thousands of prisoners were subjected to brutal human experimentation in the name of science and military power. From frostbite vivisections to biological weapons testing on living subjects, this dark chapter was buried for decades… until one student uncovered the evidence.
In this chilling episode of The World War Archive, host Jim Beaver exposes the brutal operations of Unit 731: its creation under Dr. Shiro Ishii, its expansion into a 150-building death complex, and its horrifying impact on prisoners from China, Russia, Korea, and even the U.S. We dig deep into the twisted experiments, the war crimes cover-up, and the biological warfare program that rivaled the Nazis — and yet was erased from mainstream history.
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Timestamps:
(0:00) THE HIDDEN HISTORY
(1:45) THE ARCHITECT OF ATROCITY
(3:13) THE COMPOUND OF HORRORS
(4:53) THE LANGUAGE OF DEHUMANIZATION
(6:19) THE CATALOG OF CRUELTY
(8:06) THE BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS FACTORY
(9:48) TESTING ON THE INNOCENT
(11:38) WEAPONS OF MASS INFECTION
(13:17) THE GRAND STRATEGY
(14:34) THE COMPARATIVE HORROR
(16:03) THE UNIVERSITY CONNECTION
(17:36) THE COVER-UP BEGINS
(18:40) THE DEVIL'S BARGAIN
(19:59) A PEACEFUL DEATH
(21:22) THE HIDDEN LEGACY
(22:46) THE BROADER IMPLICATIONS
(24:02) LESSONS UNLEARNED
(25:12) REMEMBERING THE VICTIMS
(26:32) THE ONGOING STRUGGLE FOR RECOGNITION
(27:44) CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE
(28:50) CLOSING SEGMENT: THE WEIGHT OF MEMORY