The Most Disturbing Human Experiment Ever

[@Wendigoon]

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[@shade0636]

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[@StaticDean]

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[@dreamman5588]

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[@JRSRLN]

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[@JonSudano]

The fact that someone in a lab coat could set someone on fire and watch as they die screaming can just go "Huh." and take notes is insane

[@user-cf6fo6bj1u]

I can’t fathom that

[@Dan_Kanerva]

well, the worldview of someone who watches youtube videos and works a regular job is V E R Y different from people growing up in the middle of one of the worse wars ever

[@billy6044]

Apparently the subject didn’t like it

[@mineantoine1248]

​@@billy6044i need proof to believe that

[@animalhalo5984]

Huh if you slowly drain a body of all the blood and hack it apart with various blades the person dies…who knew

[@elturtle4739]

The horrible thing is that we don’t have survivor perspectives. Only perspectives from the abusers, who I’m sure omitted the more cruel details beyond what they deemed to be the broad, cleaner description.

[@LichtdesMorgens]

True, imagine what we would know about the Holocaust if just the Nazis told the story

[@deirdrejones5974]

I believe there is a memorial/museum in China. I’m sure they have first hand accounts on display there.

[@RAAM855]

​@@LichtdesMorgens everyone knew what was happening at the time because the allies were constantly using Ariel recon and could infiltrate Germany much easily In the chaos of the war. The problem here is that China is a very big country and there's no easy way for western allies to fly over it or send a spy in Japanese occupied land cause yknow. A white guy in east Asia stands out like a sore thumb. And the U.S didn't trust Asian Americans enough to have them on those sort of agencies at the time.

[@multilang8624]

In a way it feels like these people were robbed of their humanity even posthumously because they didnt even get to tell their own stories. We know the clean cut facts of what happened but have no human voices to put to those experiences. In there those people had thoughts and feelings, fears, things they’d want to tell loved ones or the general public yet they were wiped off the map like they didnt matter taking those thoughts with them. Now they’re just facts and numbers to history, not stories. It was the final act of cruelty

[@drewl5221]

History is written by the victors.

[@Offline219]

The fact that this atrocity was almost lost to history makes me wonder about all the horrors that _were_ lost and maybe even the horrible things going on right now that we may never know about. It's terrifying.

[@sirboogie8853]

Were*

[@krystalgardiner5591]

What do you think those Jabs were for the past few years. They were trying to keep the data on those shots hidden for 75 years!

[@moonbeetle0417]

That’s exactly what I was thinking. I mean just look at all the CIA and FBI documents that have been released over time. MK Ultra, Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Operation Northwood, etc etc. There is so much going on in the background that we can’t even comprehend. I wonder how many “lumber mills” and “medical research” facilities today are just fronts for something like this. How many horrible acts are actually orchestrated, or allowed to happen in order to push an agenda/idea. I guess only time will tell.

[@Clo_Dub]

Or what the North Koreans are doing…

[@TinFoilCat90]

Or what the green movement is doing to poor third world children forced to dig in mines for the resources that power stupid electric cars, panels and wind turbines. But no one want to talk about that. How about the bloody hands of children as young as 2 digging the minerals for sparkly make up?

[@Anino_Makata]

The fact that Unit 731 nearly got away with being forgotten to history is troubling. Because what mistakes we neglect will eventually repeat itself, in one way or another. Thinking on the paradigm of the Unit being created and operating just a couple lifetimes ago, not even a century behind us... the chilling notion that had we not been reminded of their atrocities meant seeing another form of Unit 731 in our time on Earth is harrowing.

[@brotbrotsen1100]

I mean, no matter how much they tried to sell this as "science experiments" it sounds more like a excuse to just torture. And as good as the repeating of history quote is, i don't believe we ever learn to not repeat it, if we remember or not.

[@peterc4082]

It was to kiss Japanese behinds. They also allowed most Nazis to also get off scot free.

[@Herestravy420]

Do you honestly think human experiments are no longer carried out by governments? Call me skeptical.. but im sure in some way, even though illegal.. Governments are still doing human / animal experiments when it benefits them in any way they see.. The governments do as they please. And it's all on a "need to know" basis.. Governments have never been transparent with the people, still don't even have all the JFK documents from 60 years ago...

[@Pussmash]

Bruh so long as chinese gulags are open and making products, there is another form of unit 731 open. goofy comment

[@mark_lgaming6565]

People don’t usually talk about Japan in the same vein as Nazi Germany or Fascist Italy in terms of their atrocities against humanity, but they absolutely deserve to be mentioned in those same conversations.

[@GrabsackWheatnut]

Italy is the lesser of those evils tbh, they didn't do ethnic cleansing, they didnt have an idea of ethnic superiority, during mussolinis reign he killed just over 12000 people through government means, over 22 years that he ruled, and 1/3 of the Jewish population was in the fascist party, the italians just wanted to be a world power and thought Germany was the way to do it

[@lucasisofdarkness5423]

Yup. Its annoying.

[@drunkkillerwhalesdriving]

the romanticism and fetish culture surrounding japan has made so many people forget the atrocities they have committed. as a korean person, it causes me pain knowing my great grandmother went through so much and japan refuses to acknowledge it

[@JK-gm6kk]

​@@drunkkillerwhalesdrivingwe are not a proud race. It's not a race at all.

[@compatriot852]

And then there's the Soviets which commited atrocities for even longer after the war with most of the perpetrators never being held responsible

[@marvininabox]

Crazy how every detail of German atrocity is common knowledge, but things like this occurring simultaneously in Japan are almost occult knowledge

[@ghost-user559]

USA, Russia, China ect

[@patriarch.9237]

Cause most of the ones about germans are made up

[@itnotmeitu3896]

@@koolaidman4869 the Germans post ww2 were exterminated in Poland and königsburg, too.

[@kiz3296]

@@koolaidman4869 Very surreal to hear Wendigoon mention the atomic bombing so casually as if it were 'the event which ended the horrific war' whilst denouncing other horrific acts. Shows how effective the west's narrative rewriting of war atrocities has become and how they posthumously posited themselves as hero's after the death of the Nazi regime instead of being just as bad if not worse.

[@Azazantei]

​@@itnotmeitu3896 Hell the Germans were even raped by the Soviets.

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[@alphaprimus7794]

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You got it backwards, RAID was the only sponsor he could get for this one.

[@anarchium_wellsquest]

I'm not sure if this is pointed out, but a lot of the "research" was just so unhinged, and based on nothing. No hypotheses, no goals, just morbid curiosity

[@marhawkman303]

I actually disagree. I think at some point they got to "what haven't we done yet?" They're doing their jobs, and part of the job is to come up with new ideas.... on how to do even more things. The really sad part is how much we still use the data they collected.

[@erickescobar4824]

Couldnt of said it better myself. You only saod it nicer ​@marhawkman303

[@rarelycold6618]

Modern scientists: "What those people did was horrible and shouldn't have happened, but the research is too good to waste. Never do this again, please." (wink)

[@zannis5441]

@@rarelycold6618pretty much😒

[@bakedandbeaded]

@@marhawkman303 Disagree all you want. Actual people that worked there themselves said some of the stuff they did wasn’t for research or didn’t have ANY purpose aside from, “can we? Let’s see!” So disagree if you want to - you’re wrong.

[@kennardswrld3900]

Thanks for bringing light to this. My great grandfather died in unit 731. The response from the Japanese government and western media to this tragedy has been horrible compared to other incidents in the past. Rest in peace to all that died in unit 731.

[@Quesoquantum]

They didn't respond. They just pushed it under the rug like every irresponsible person.

[@kennardswrld3900]

@@Quesoquantum the fact that they acknowledge its existence but have yet to apologize or do anything about it says everything

[@disser3849]

Well tbf US ended up dropping two nukes on the bastards and essentially ended up colonizing the whole country and recreating their culture, which is more than any apology could ever do.

[@trashman11]

@@disser3849 you fuck up our boat we drop two suns on you, get wrecked

[@jyorgbjornsen]

If it's any consolation, Japan is going the way of the dodo and God has cursed them with anime.

[@JayDonagh]

They interviewed a lot of former Unit 731 members who were willing to admit what they had done. It's a strange contrast watching these friendly-looking, harmless elderly Japanese men talk about cutting people open or worse. Some of them claim to be haunted by what they had done, but also justify it and claim they were following orders. These guys went on to live very normal lives, had children and grandchildren, and probably went peacefully with their loved ones by their side. As opposed to the people they killed.

[@jeremiahm3765]

Justifying their actions with "following orders" is probably just denial, and probably why they didn't off themselves, assuming they actually regretted anything.

[@itbeWOLFLINGS]

Although not at all comparable in harm, I got the same feeling watching the post-experiment interviews of the Stanford Prison participants. The cruel guards went right back to being normal college students afterwards. It's disturbing what the average person is capable of and it's even more disturbing not knowing what even ourselves would do in certain circumstances.

[@JayDonagh]

@@jeremiahm3765 I think at a certain point, unless you're completely unremorseful, you had to find some sort of rationalization to cope with what you did. The hard truth is a lot of the people involved with Unit 731 were fairly normal individuals. Some of them reported shaking at first and having very human reactions when told they had to cut people open, yet they admitted they felt less about it after. The higher-ups in Unit 731 were literally evil and none of them admitted any guilt or wrongdoing, even believing themselves to have benefitted their nation by their actions

[@VidelxSpopovich]

They were heroes.

[@azrielsatan8693]

​@Emmanuel Goldstein glad to see your so willing to join the prisoners in getting tortured and killed. This is imperial Japan; there is no not going along with it; you either do or you die.

[@amandas2639]

To Wendigoon's point about why the mirror story is so chilling, I studied Nazi Germany pretty heavily for my master's program (history). One of the points I kept running across, both from contemporary writers and from historians looking back, is that it's so easy to write all these atrocities off as being conducted by actual supervillains come to life from a comic book, or by demons, or whatever, because it's a comforting lie. For one thing, it helps us try to rationalize something that can't truly be rationalized, and for another, it helps us fool ourselves into thinking these were anomalies that can never be repeated. How often are demons going to crawl up from hell and run amuck, after all? But by mythologizing these monsters and turning them into *literal* monsters from fairytales and movies, we lose sight of the horrifying truth that, by and large, these were just ordinary people. There wasn't anything special about them besides their capacity for unfathomable cruelty. They had jobs, friends, hobbies, families. They had favorite foods and favorite songs and favorite books. They weren't demons or monsters (in the literal sense, I mean), not some kind of otherworldly creatures that plagued the world in their time; they were human, same as the rest of us. *That* is what is truly terrifying about it all--knowing that they weren't special or unique and that there is absolutely nothing preventing more like them from showing up again.

[@marcshuman2287]

It is foolishness to say that there was nothing demonic about this behavior. Demons manifest in this world to torment humanity through possession and or manipulating their minds to commit acts of transgression such as these atrocities.

[@MrTrolltle]

@@marcshuman2287 they never said there wasn’t anything demonic about it. This was downright demonic behavior committed by awful people, But at the end of the day they were still people. That’s the terrifying part

[@gabagabago0l]

​@@marcshuman2287Nonsense. There's no such thing as demons, or gods or fairytales or whatever crackhead belief is out there. This "behavior" is completely human. It is not "unnatural". Human beings are cruel, inhumane and horrible creatures to ourselves and other species.

[@baobypixar5841]

@@marcshuman2287 you missed their point entirely

[@jg54sayaka11]

Anyone would be capable of such action given a situation where you either comply or be killed yourself

[@gummyboi7544]

The mirror instance essentially verified that these guards and scientists didnt see these people as 'not human', no animal wants a mirror, no animal needs a mirror, no farmer feels the urge to give their sheep a mirror, they knew rhese people were human, they knew they felt the same experiences as themselves...but they did it anyways.

[@magicman9552]

No matter how atrocious a war crime is, "harrowing" always feels like an adequate word to describe the experiences of the victims. This is the only example I can think of that this word seems inappropriately mild. I feel like we don't even have the language to describe how horrific this whole thing was.

[@yyeezyy630]

You’ve never heard of the holocaust I’m guessing

[@DerAlleinTiger]

@@yyeezyy630 The Holocaust was worse in terms of scale, but... no, I'm not going to lie, Unit 731 was worse in terms of just absolute brutality and cruelty. That's not to downplay the acts of cruelty done in death camps across Europe, but rather 731 was just even worse.

[@matthewglaaser4286]

I would say hellish or living hell

[@PickledPear]

​@@yyeezyy630 yes, it was harrowing, but just think how we dont even have any survivors from these experiments. Brutal, cruel and unusual fall short to describe what went on here

[@magicman9552]

@@matthewglaaser4286 I think that could fit, but it's mostly used as hyperbole. If hell is real, this must be what it would look like

[@yossy2827]

I'm Japanese. Even more terrifying is that an increasing number of Japanese people recently claim that Unit 731 was just a quarantine unit and didn't commit any atrocities, saying the stories were made up by Chinese. It's very shameful and disgusting.

[@blokvader8283]

So many modern facts about the human body are a result of Unit 731, like the temperature to boil a human and shit like that, so how the hell do people justify that knowledge existing without these atrocities?

[@anather7073]

Thanks for your country's contribution for such precious research

[@Rain-mw9du]

​@@anather7073why are u putting it like it's his fault lmao

[@seijin5478]

@@anather7073what

[@epicstyle160]

"Recently", it's been like this since forever. It's honestly insane Japanese people think they still have the right to dislike the Chinese after everything they've done and continue to do. They've still barely apologized to Korea. They don't teach this stuff in Japanese schools. Country is a joke

[@Elpresidente98]

World War 2 really was the darkest period in Human history. Between Unit 731 and the Holocaust, it's really depressing to know that people are capable of such barbarism and pure evil. May the victims rest in peace.

[@joedagg4495]

I just find it terrifying that this type of shit really didn't happen very long ago.

[@LIKEICARE84]

Don't forget Stalin and his shennanigans

[@artorhen]

This is just the tip of the iceberg of the things that took place in that period

[@richardmcgowan1651]

Well the issue with this is that while its easy to find what happened during Holocaust and the people that carried out those horrible acts. You will find it hard to find out just how bad the Japanese were in the regions they fought in. Especially to people not Japanese. The sad part of all this was how America helped the efforts to protect certain people within Japan after WW2. Something that's only really coming to light.

[@charlesk22]

Abu ghraib, MKULTRA

[@linkLoverAG]

Its also insane to me to know near the end of WW2 Japan was actively starving and civilians were dying as a result. In fact, if the bombs hadn't been dropped, the backup choice to getting Japan to surrender was to put the country under a blockade and starve them out. They were more willing to send their spending to these torture labs than they were to supply food and water to their own dying civilians.

[@heizouanemo4296]

That’s insane i never even thought of that.

[@TheStarshipGarage]

Yep, as horrific as the atomic bombs were, the alternative would've resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of American troops and possibly millions of Japanese. Imperial Japan put no value on human life, and stuff like this shows.

[@chilichinashop]

That’s so cruel. You have brought up a very interesting point and perspective about the situation, but omg, is it vile 🙁

[@hermescarraro3393]

Well actually... The first ones they were leaving to starve were not Yamato Japanese. The ones they were starving were the "inferior" races not native to mainland Japan, like the natives of the Ryukyu islands, you know, Okinawa, the place were they sent kids to explode against Americans. Yeah.

[@linkLoverAG]

@@hermescarraro3393 I'm sure that they were deliberately starving any races they claimed as inferior, but Japan as a whole was already going hungry before they even attacked Pearl Harbor. After the war thousands of Japanese civilians died of starvation regardless of backgrounds because simply stating, there was not enough food. There was a crop failure, crop thieves, and supplies weren't getting let in because the Allied forces were deliberately sinking the cargo ships coming from other Asian countries that supplied foods to the mainland to make an economic chokehold until Japan surrendered. Yet for some reason they had the ability to support projects like this?

[@juliewisener6748]

I think one of the scariest things about this is how calculated and formulaic it is. These were highly educated and most likely highly intelligent horrible people. They knew exactly what they were doing, and continued to deliberately torture human beings for decades.

[@wolftamer5463]

After all, to them this was just another "experiment". Just a log, no different to a lab rat. "If I do this, what will happen?" Easy to be cold and calculating when you don't even see your test subjects as human anymore.

[@heidiwilkes1]

For their own sick pleasure & having permission to do so just made it worse, smh 😔

[@smokeonthewater5287]

Just like with covid vaccines. Huge planned crime on a global level. And the coverup on the spread from the gain of function financed by Fauci.

[@darkmatter9643]

The banality of evil

[@azmoz]

You are giving them way to much credit. The US got every result with their experiments and absolutely nothing of value was really discovered

[@pandapoodle1]

I heard a commentary about this which was disturbing. The person said that a lot of these people were normal people who went home to their wives and children at the end of the day after doing these things. I think that's the most disturbing thing about this, the people who did these things didn't see it as wrong. People can be very evil.

[@blokvader8283]

Good God, the mental image of someone freezing a baby to death and then punching a time card to go home is just awful.

[@boratumaumabora]

It says much to us about the banality of evil. Not every evil is done by cartoonish monsters, much of it os perpetrated by simple bureaucrats following orders without question.

[@AlcoholBracketofficial]

The thing is that they did know it was wrong they just didn't care

[@zoeb3573]

@@blokvader8283 Not just that, freezing a baby to death and then coming back home to their own baby. How do you ever look at your infant son or daughter normally again after doing such things to another child?

[@steviechubbs5238]

​@@zoeb3573the Japanese felt they were the 'superior' Asian race, and the ones to dominate the continent. They saw (especially at this point) the Chinese and Koreans as 'lesser peoples' whom didn't matter in the grand scheme of things. In their minds, it's probably no different to those cheesy sci-fi movies where the US government dissects aliens, but in real life

[@blufluffya_496]

Thousands of people and it essentially went unnoticed..... it's scary to think how much of this kind of stuff is currently going on right under our noses

[@andyd2960]

There is absolutely stuff like this going on right now and in recent past. All around the globe.

[@SirHusky654]

@@andyd2960 There's the Epstein clientele list for one, which we probably won't know the full extent of until 30 years down the line when everybody involved is already dead.

[@barneycockburn]

RIGHT NOW. All over Africa, Mexico, behind Stalin's regime, North Korea... Just to make a few

[@Sercer25]

This is just what was uncovered. Always keep your friends and family close and away from the g*v't kidn*pping hotspots.

[@kirc3375]

@@Sercer25What 💀

[@Joeyisagonnawin]

7:11 For some reason, I imagined this like a card game. "I wager Biological warfare." "I see your Biological warfare and raise you one Nuclear warfare." "I fold."

[@blitzvalentine363]

I shouldn't have laughed as hard as I did at this

[@charlie_magne_103]

Bioweapons are more terrifying and sometimes more powerful than Nuclear Warfare.

[@NotRealPhil]

Ah yes, another calming bedtime story from Wendi

[@anthonyevangelisti9296]

What country r u from

[@toastytoast9800]

i wouldn't say this one is gonna be calming boss

[@ingobutseverelydiseased]

fr

[@NotRealPhil]

@@anthonyevangelisti9296 I work third shift fym

[@PainKillerOverdose]

Actually though.. was laying down after graveyards and thought “Of course the Goon is going to drop another banger to spice up my dreams.”

[@Gameinger16]

Unit 731 is genuinely just so fucking sickening. It's absolutely insane how monstrous and disgusting it is that something like this ever happened. Like the worst things you couldn't even imagine happened and the main architects got off scot-free. I feel like more attention is being put onto this recently thankfully. I think despite how immensely revolting it is, It's important to recognize the worst atrocities of mankind. Even against each other.

[@thepcuser4312]

although sickening, we did learn some things from it. for example they were the reason we found out our bodies are made out of mostly water. How they found this out though was by I think boiling people or burning.

[@psyxypher3881]

Why "Mankind" and not the people who ACTUALLY DID IT? If you blame everyone for the sins of a few, we all learn nothing.

[@ValiareTheForsaken01]

​@psyxypher3881 Because they weren't the only ones doing it. The Nazis performed similar experiments inside of the concentration camps. And there's the fact that mankind has always done horrific things like this. It's easy to imagine it takes deranged monsters to do things like this. Never forget that the people who commit these sorts of atrocities are still just people.

[@Gameinger16]

@@ValiareTheForsaken01 ^ We like to imagine that only a monster could do it, but they were still human like us. They were born not too different to us.

[@JoeMama-su6io]

@@thepcuser4312 lol

[@johndoe6188]

What gets me is that the "scientists" who were able to walk free with minimal to no punishment simply, moved on. Men with the knowledge of how to dismember, mutilate, rape, torture and slaughter men, women and children without thought just transitioned back into society, strangers laid eyes on them with no knowledge of what they'd done, it's terrifying when monsters can look like you and i, and you'd never know.

[@phoneaccount206]

Lmao we’ll welcome to everyday life. You don’t really know anybody or what they’ve done. So done assume everyone is the same. Imagine that

[@MD-cy8uj]

Those are called war veterans.

[@johndoe6188]

@MD-cy8uj That's an ignorant statement. War is beyond words, but to limit everyone involved to such vulgar words is disrespectful.

[@gravity5903]

A wolf in sheeps clothing

[@johndoe6188]

@@phoneaccount206 Well*

[@wingedblaze5985]

There truly is a special place in hell for every single one of those researchers and soldiers who propagated these horrific acts.

[@DoryLiu]

As a Chinese, I learnt this from elementary school. But when studied abroad I just found the fact of 731 has not been discussed enough as it should be. The most unsettling part is that many senior officials of Japanese government still will go to temples to pray for the past generals who committed these crime. But thank you for spreading this and make the world be alarmed about the dark side of humanity.

[@imEden0]

You’re also not allowed to apologize publicly in japan for imperial japan’s atrocities. Well, you could, but you get backlash.

[@jdb9129]

I'm an American and it's a shame that some people praise evil people in my country as well. It wasn't until a few years ago, they finally started taking down the statues of Confederate leaders and some schools changing their school name for the same reason. There was a statue of Nathan Bedford Forest. The guy that created the KKK. It wouldn't be much different than Germany having a statue of Hitler. I'm just happy that humanity has been going in the right direction, for the most part.

[@jc_so_riyl]

Fucking sucks how the Gen Z Japanese are innocently clueless that they're being invited to the Yasukuni Shrine without knowing that they're actually honoring A class war criminals since the senior citizens kept manipulating them. I'll forever hate Imperial Japan though, especially Tojo who started this shit

[@YuRrRrRYeEeEeE]

Going to those temples honors all Japanese war dead from the samurai to the ww2 dead it’s doubtful they go just to honor the war criminals.

[@vliemek]

In Poland during literature classes we spend the same amount of time reading and discussing II WW poetry and concentration camp poetry as other periods which sometimes span a century or more. Those things always depend on where you are from.

[@samanthacarbine3151]

The line “they determined that children had a lower tolerance to it than adults” made me realize they actually were just doing the most unnecessary evil ever having been done. 22:36

[@lucy.jba5]

same, i feel sick

[@tacoexpressSEEDEEholeeveryones]

Would you consider leaving on 2 tables lamps with 2 different types of bulbs and seeing which lamp burns out first, an experiment?,;:

[@jayce1850]

@@tacoexpressSEEDEEholeeveryones people arent lamps wtf

[@kevinuriarte2072]

Comparing literal objects that are not alive to human beings is almost crazy

[@InquisitorVelisvel]

Children’s immune systems work faster than an adult’s so diseases work differently on em. Covid-19 is a good example showing more adult deaths against younger people. Almost no children died from covid and the ones that did die is because they had a concurrent disease other than Covid-19.

[@idk-imacat]

Finally decided to check out Wendigoon after seeing him on Creepcast. I had formerly thought he was a silly horror youtuber talking about skinwalkers and such but he's such a legit dude. I can tell he is a good soul. Good video, albeit dark.

[@guzvar]

If you ever come to México, there is a really interesting museum in México City called "Museo de Memoria y Tolerancia" i believe it translates to "Museum of remembrance and tolerance" it has exhibits of genocides with stories directly from survivors, part of the museum is decorated like trenches, they even give you a disclaimer before entering because it really feels heavy emotionaly, especially the last room of the museum. The point of the museum is to never forget what the human is cappable of, so we don't repeat the mistakes of the past, it's a relly interesting experience

[@patrickn.4113]

I would like to see this some day😊

[@SebastienDrac]

Ayo, I'm mexican but don't live in Mexico City. Thanks for giving me another place I'd like to visit if I ever go there 🌱

[@bee3387]

every country should have a museum like this

[@biggreen1456]

I learned about this in my spanish class, very interesting museum

[@TheCristianalvarez]

Ironic with constant snuff files coming out of there.

[@jingxuu3064]

Growing up I was told the horrendous experiment the 731 done on Chinese people back then. My grandparents told me they would steam people alive / freeze people and then pour boiling water on them just to see how a human body would react. I used to have nightmares about being steamed and seeing my flesh being scooped out! Worse thing is I don’t think they ever once acknowledged or apologized for the excruciating pain and suffering it inflicted. Thanks Wendigoon for spreading the awareness. Just wanted to say that sometimes the tough stance China takes against Japan on many issues has its roots in the history which are not often heard by many, especially knowing when people suffered without ever getting redress

[@Frankie-xu6sr]

The Japanese government acknowledged the atrocities but never officially apologized for them to this day

[@proton2189]

The history of Japan and China runs deep and there isn't one country (or empire) that was best than the other, truly. Both did horrible stuff over the centuries.

[@sully1492]

I had something similar but with the holocaust. My dad went way too in detail when I was way too young about what would happen to me if I was in nazi germany, I was scared of taking showers for a while Edit: my dad who’s a history major got it from my grandpa(who’s a practicing Jew) it was hard to wrap my head around myself being the victim of such things when I was that young. Sometimes I dreamed off gas coming from the faucet head or I showered fearing the water would stop coming and gas would come out.

[@marocat4749]

So they jut went on the surface. Of that .😢

[@bujfvjg7222]

The Taiwanese didn't boil or steam anyone though....

[@shiomicchi7247]

The worst thing about this whole ordeal is that this facility is rarely acknowledged. I studied Japanese at university for 4 years and took multiple history courses, a lot of which included military history from the 20th century, and unit 731 was never mentioned by any of my professors or in any of our readings. We talked a lot about other horrors such as "comfort women", the senseless murder of civilians and the forced "Japanification" of people in places like China, Korea and Taiwan, but unit 731 never came up. I even asked one of my professors why we didn't discuss Shiro Ishii, and according to him, even the Japanese themselves would prefer to just forget that it happened, despite never even showing any sort of public remorse for the crimes of the empire. It's a touchy subject, extremely gruesome and very fresh in the public's mind, given how it was less than a century ago, but I think it's really important for us to acknowledge the darker parts of history to make sure we never do anything like this again as a species.

[@ocpsyconautv2958]

It’s because half of all medical knowledge/treatment is predicted by experiments like this They know what not to do & what it’ll do to you because of facilities like this. Otherwise they’re stuck injecting monkies with anything they can think of, which isn’t a comforting thought either

[@deadinside8781]

How was the topic of comfort women treated, out of curiosity?

[@opeth7021]

that's bullshit. they don't get to just forget all of these vile disgusting inhumane things that have happened and not even apologise for it.

[@веснушки-в9л]

​@@opeth7021 they do get cus nobody ever punished the people who were in charge for it. I mean Japanese monarchy still exists to this day.

[@opeth7021]

@@веснушки-в9л not really familiar w their politics. i just meant like they SHOULDN'T BE ABLE TO y'know? just like holocaust, we shouldn't forget history or it will someday repeat itself. and to be honest, it already is repeating itself. look at what's happening to uyghur turks in china. is anybody talking about that? no, silence. i recommend you guys do research if you don't know about that topic as well btw we all should be informed.

[@ira__s]

It is so disturbing how people can do such horrific things to each other, and how it has happened so many times in different places and ways and how I have no doubt is still happening to this day maybe just in a different way again. It's also just so sad how it feels like there is more and more people nowadays who try to deny these horrible things ever happened, trying to erase the victims completely. We need to talk about these things and stop them from happening again, although we'll never be able to rid evil completely. It is so depressing.

[@notyourdaddude1957]

What's even more sickening is that despite all the crimes they commited, the whole unit including Shiro Ishii himself were literally granted immunity by US government and they walked free from what they did. They never got punished for this

[@ProudFilthyCasual]

I mean....maybe they specifically never got punished, but those pardons came after Japan got absolutely punished for their wartime behavior with a couple of famous bombs you may have heard of. When peace is on the table after what people went through in WWII......they probably didn't track every person individually before pardoning them.

[@Tearlach]

@@ProudFilthyCasualExcept the pardons were granted knowing EXACTLY what had occurred. The pardons were granted in exchange for the research data. It wasn’t a case of blanket pardoning and some war criminals sneaking through the cracks, they were expressly, deliberately pardoned on the grounds that they would hand over their research.

[@ProudFilthyCasual]

@@Tearlach Yeah, shit happens in wartime. Sorry if you are just learning that sometimes opportunity presents itself and hard decisions are made.

[@sarabear8087]

Not in this life at least

[@TTFerdinand]

@@Tearlach I think the point was that it WASN'T known exactly what had occurred. Not until the research data had been at least translated and sifted through, taking a few years at best or rather a few decades. You'd have to take into account that there was many years worth of research data, Americans can't read Japanese, there were many more intelligence and other documents waiting to be translated and there were not so many translators with Top Secret clearance to do the job.

[@anxiousopossum]

My first job involved duplicating records from capital punishment cases for lawyers. This included photographs and videos of crime scenes and autopsies, which I knew going into the job. I never felt too bothered by it. It was easy to disconnect myself when copying those materials and just do the job. I did it exclusively for 2 years and continue assisting when we are short staffed to this day. One video stuck with me more than any other. It was the only one that ever made me cry and made me feel nauseous. It gave me nightmares that still last today. It was a walkthrough of the crime scene, guy was killed at home, robbery gone wrong or owed someone money, I don’t remember. But when they panned over the bathroom mirror his fiancée had left him a note, it just said “I love you, see you later!” Seeing that note, just that brief bridge of human connection shattered my disconnected to the materials I handled on the job. It was worse than any of the picture of bodies I had seen. I was engaged at the time, and started having nightmares about my fiancé, now husband, dying and me not being aware. About being that woman who had to receive the news that she’d never speak to the man she loved again. 29:58 I think it’s always the things we don’t expect to hurt about horrors in this world that can disturb us the most.

[@leek.3671]

Holy shit… this made me cry

[@leitmotif7268]

I have recurring post traumatic nightmares too, my heart goes out to you.

[@wetsocks3499]

that is one of my worst fears,, really sorry you had to see that, i hope at some point in the future it gets a little better at least

[@anxiousopossum]

@@wetsocks3499 thank you and others for your super sweet comments. I’m doing a lot better, I go to therapy and thankfully the job has good health insurance that covers mental health services. I hope everyone else who is struggling with trauma finds comfort! 💜

[@craydussy]

Wow, thank you for sharing this. It's heartbreaking. What do you mean by duplicating the video though, and why would you have to watch these videos to do it?

[@purrincesskitty2774]

the sheer level of respect shown to the victims and events in the first few minutes followed immediately by RAID SHADOW LEGENDS had me dying LMAO

[@purrincesskitty2774]

@@GenghisClaus HEY-O

[@SCP-173peanut]

​@@GenghisClausbro😭

[@unumaire]

​@@GenghisClaus STOP

[@abyssalpen9663]

Full respect to the victims and their families and the situation as a whole, but a video like this 5000% got demonetized immediately, and Raid has that fat whale money.

[@jaylol7226]

This, tbh. But hey, that's how comedic relief works, right? 😆

[@boazwell1251]

I don’t think a normal (mentally healthy) person could do this to even an animal.They knew what they were doing

[@wavular]

Hey man, I lived on the streets from age 13 until I was sixteen. I've seen just how willing people are to inflict suffering on other humans. You wouldn't believe what "regular" people will do.

[@John420Bro]

Very happy you're off the streets

[@MilestheDirtyMindedGoblin2099]

It’s horrible, so sorry you had to go through that

[@pillsburydoughboy1627]

​@@TheGuiltsOfUsweirdo

[@Inky_doodledoo]

​@@TheGuiltsOfUsyou belong to the streets

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

In times of desperation, some people will do almost anything to get by. Even at the cost of other people, or their own dignity, or even their own decency.

[@ryf3905]

as a japanese person this video hit extra hard for me. having received both american and japanese education growing up, and personally being interested in colonial history, i’m a lot more aware of our horrific past than the average person, but this was SO much worse than what i knew before… the history curriculum here barely touch on the various massacres that took place under imperial japan since there are groups that actively lobby against educating the ppl abt it. as horrible as it is, i’m glad you highlighted this topic as i feel that japanese war crimes are never talked about, completely overshadowed by whatever cool japan is…

[@ryf3905]

not that american education is particularly unbiased on this topic either, but yk what i mean

[@dlf7789]

The fact they call it colonial history is deplorable.

[@quinsey9211]

thanks for the comment was hoping some english speaking japanese people would give their insight. Love from California

[@shortking-vp9vv]

Huh. As a Southern American, it’s interesting to know there are groups in Japan too who don’t want the ugly parts of their history taught.

[@ich3730]

@@shortking-vp9vv they legit got shrines for war criminals over there, its fcked up. Japan really does not give shit about its past

[@AlexKatzenstein]

These experiments are, like, morbid curiosity taken to the extreme. It's like everybody being able to act on every intrusive thought they've ever had in their lives.

[@giovannicervantes2053]

I didn't feel like making this joke but might as well Japanese scientists when hitting a baby against a tree after poisoning its mother kills it. 😮

[@pitbullnamedcupcake8485]

@@giovannicervantes2053 “holy shit! Did you guys know dropping a newborn infant in to sulfuric acid kills it?!” “What?!?…I don’t believe it, it must have been a fluke! Do it ten more times to be sure!”

[@ItsNessaTho]

​@@giovannicervantes2053 literally surprised Pikachu face to the extreme

[@door-chan]

They're not intrusive thoughts if they're always on your mind

[@DecayOpossum]

@@door-chanI’d say more they’re not intrusive if they don’t disturb you. Some key aspects of intrusive thoughts is that they are persistent and upsetting. These people clearly couldn’t have been too disturbed by what they were doing when even the “nicest” one only snuck in a mirror but never did anything about the, ya know, horrific human experimentation and brutal torture.

[@Skinofakill3r]

Putting a Raid Shadow Legends ad before a Unit 731 documentary is diabolical

[@aluminumtarkus]

The "maruta" label was also an effective way to dehumanize the prisoners. When it comes to crimes against humanity like this, it's common for the direct perpetrators to find some way to convince themselves that the people they're torturing are subhuman as a means to cope and to justify their own actions.

[@chrisdann7017]

One of the experiments they recently found out about from old soldiers passing down this information on their death beds. There was an experiment called "Mothers Love" at Unit 731. They would take a mother and her child and place them in a room with a floor that heated up over time. The soldiers would look under the door and take bets too see if the Mother would use her child as a shield or if she would protect her kid. Either way they would cook from the inside out but apparently the one solider said he only witnessed Mother's holding their child while running back and forth until their feet couldn't move anymore and then they'd curl up and hold their child on top of them to prevent them from touching the ground. Really stomach wrenching stuff. This reminds me Phillip Zimbardo's book "Lucifer Effect". It's the same Psych who did the Stanford Prison experiments, but he writes about American PoW camps during the Iraq invasion, the genocide in Rwanda etc and his entire point (I think? I could be a pleb) is that any human under the right systemic pressures can commit evil acts. Just something to consider when wondering how these soldiers and scientist committed such heinous crimes against humanity.

[@Emmaem111]

Yeah, it’s absolutely heinous and disgustingly disturbing what they did, but I can honestly also see them-once becoming desensitized enough to their own actions-having a fun time doing their torturing as if it’s a game or an interesting experiment to watch. Or maybe just being completely clinical about it. At least during the time they were doing it, I could see that being the case. This view is especially easy to consider when you remember they thought everyone who wasn’t imperial Japanese was below them. Probably more akin to other animals than people of the same species, a mindset which would make it harder for them to sympathize with those who suffered. Part of me wonders if anyone doing the torturing had a tougher time with prisoners who were fellow Japanese citizens than with those who weren’t. Maybe they convinced themselves they deserved it, but I kinda wonder if anyone still had trouble with it. Obviously not defending them, but the part of me that’s super into psychological is curious and wants to try and guess what went through the minds of both the torturers and the victims. Maybe less so the victims since that’s a scary mind-road to walk down.

[@TheAngryXenite]

Not to distract from the wider subject matter, but if memory serves Zimbardo really isn't a trustworthy researcher. People talk all the time about the Stanford Prison Experiment, but the fact is that he fucked up the methodology so badly that his results are completely worthless. Basically, he was deliberately attempting to reach that exact conclusion ("give anyone power over others and they will inevitably indulge in cruelty and oppression") and kept messing with the parameters to reach it, up to and including personal interference and encouraging the guards, who he had picked out himself rather than using randomly selected test subjects, to dominate the prisoners. The guards themselves attested that he'd indicated what he wanted to see from them and they went with it not necessarily because they felt like it but because they wanted to meet his request. TL:DR it's a bad experiment and it doesn't prove anything beyond Zimbardo being an ass and that people will go along with a lot if they believe it's required of them.

[@Herpusderpus]

@@TheAngryXenite Good, I’d like to keep at least a shred of my faith in humanity.

[@Han-yb7qo]

Im giving my mom the biggest hug when she gets home now

[@njones420]

@@Emmaem111 agreed to some degree but it's sadly also just a _human_ (or even an anamalia thing) and not only cultural. look at the milgram experiments, or Nazis, or the Zimbardo Prison Experiments (sorry, they were in the OP too) etc. ...but we also see it in the animal kingdom with higher-intelligence creatures, chimps will spend several hours mutilating and abusing other chimps _after_ killing them. Orcas and seals obviously, cats, dolphins, elephants...the list goes on. nature is cruel and we're part of it. Our gift is _most_ people's empathy will overrule such acts, you'd hope.

[@evanwhittaker8587]

I visited Harbin in North Eastern China where these atrocities took place. The museum built on the site was one of the best I have ever visited. The museum was massive and completely free. They had hundreds of primary source documents and delved into pretty much every aspect of Unit 731. If anyone here is currently in China or plans to visit soon, I highly recommend visiting.

[@MrDdeded]

The only thing the Chinese government won’t lie about.

[@Huddle_House56]

If only the CCP was that thorough in keeping up with its own human rights atrocities.

[@vouteludibrialan8295]

@Buis Bo It's hypocritical, to put it lightly? But oh well. Almost all nations have done and continue to do atrocities. Who cares, right?

[@Knightwolf1994]

​@Buis Bo It's just whataboutism. It's the same thing when anyone mentions Nazi Germany's crimes and idiots say the US internment camps were worse.

[@pureblood3823]

​@Buis Bo everything. Commies have murdered over 100 million people just in the last 100 years. That ideology needs to be eradicated from this earth. Don't be so dense

[@ChuySusej]

What scares me more is there is most definitely stuff like this happening today maby not to such a large scale but definitely to the same or worse extreme all the stuff that gets exposed or bought to light is probably dwarfed by all the stuff that happens behind closed doors never to be revealed.

[@etiannemedina7614]

I’m certain that it is happening today, probably not to the same scale but I find it hard to believe that humans wouldn’t be able to do this today right now.

[@witchmargielas]

definitely happening & israel definitely has something to do with it

[@nas84payne]

@@witchmargielasSde Teiman camp.

[@XeniaChow]

I am ethnically Chinese, but was born and had lived in Japan from age 5-13. If I remember correctly, they start teaching history at grade 4, but the weird thing is, unlike Germany, they never teach you about the atrocities committed by the militarist regime at all. If anything, all they taught were the use of nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the firebombing of Tokyo, as well as the Nanking Massacre, which was simply described in textbooks as an "unfortunate incident". Basically, by whitewashing history and leaving out important bits like the Unit 731 and comfort women, the Japanese government would like its youth to think that Japan was not the perpetrator, but solely a victim of WWII. If you know about the history of Japan, you will definitely be aware of their adherence to the virtue that is "honor". However, in the case of history, their sense of honor is so strong that they would sacrifice truth in order to protect it, and as of now, the Japanese governments have yet to issue any apology of any kind, and have, on many separate occasions, insisted that Japan was a mere victim of Imperalism just like China and South Korea (both of which Japan had invaded), which I find quite infuriating. However, despite their adamant refusal to say sorry and their denial of history, there are still people who resist it and spread the truth. So thank you, Wendigoon, for being one of those people, for taking part in the preservation of history so it will never be forgotten. And to those who are currently watching this video, I hope you can gain a better understanding of history, and why the Eastern/South-east Asian countries and Japan are still not entirely on good terms. And, perhaps more importantly, I sincerely hope that by learning about the past and the sheer horror and the suffering and trauma that had been unleashed upon this world, we will learn learn to avoid these mistakes, to seek peace and not conflict, to love and not to hate, and to be perhaps just a little bit kinder to one another. If there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.❤

[@thegamewasriggedfromthestart]

>Chinese >Surprised history gets scrubbed Boy, have i got news for you

[@user-jd1qh8tq1j]

@@thegamewasriggedfromthestart you are very funny

[@pirilon78]

​@@thegamewasriggedfromthestart 😐

[@virtchuual8041]

@@thegamewasriggedfromthestart wow hilarious

[@youngminpark3173]

@@thegamewasriggedfromthestart you can talk about both. it's not like disliking one thing excludes disliking another

[@meliybelly]

It’s so disgusting how the Japanese government has covered this up. Not to mention that so many citizens aren’t even aware of these tragedies

[@dianebarclay3919]

Look into japanese internment camps in north america.

[@Scar3crowss]

Completely. I thought the things the Nazis did was bad enough, but at least Germany owned up to that.

[@Sillimant_]

@@Scar3crowssgermany was partially right though

[@Scar3crowss]

@@Sillimant_ Right in what way?

[@1984isnotamanual]

I think there is an element of “well we expect other races to act like savages but the white civilized germans knew better” attitude in this

[@soggyman1098]

Wendigoon is like the Bob Ross of horror. This man could talk about the most disturbing events in human history but it's just so tranquil

[@quack4760]

and also add a raid shadow legends ad at the beginning

[@MakerInMotion]

"Up here lets make a happy little cloud of poison gas, down at the bottom we'll use our wide brush to make a river of blood and vomit."

[@ThePearsPair]

He uses classical music

[@absolutelyfookinnobody2843]

​@Insanity good job captain obvious

[@lamamama6337]

When people have this kind of power over others, it is not uncommon for their behaviour to go this way. The level of atrocities grow as their lack of humanity intensifies.

[@C._Bradford]

So glad you talking about this. Nobody talks about the atrocities of Japan during the war in an accessible way. I spent weeks learning about the holocaust in high school but never even heard about Unit 731, Nanking, or Comfort Women until I was literally pursuing a history degree in college.

[@sir4978]

Bu- bu- But Sony and cute anime women!

[@sir4978]

And who could forget Mario Bing Bing wahoo. Dont Think about it haha, cute anime Girls for the win haha Sony walkman haha

[@plschokeme]

@@sir4978 cringe

[@shosc16]

What? People have been talking about unit 731 for YEARS. Don’t pretend like it’s something new

[@ichigo.42ga3]

@@sir4978 these are completely different things from completely different times, are we supposed to just hate entire populations and their creations for crimes committed before their timeline??

[@Armando_DA]

No extra creepy BG music to dictate how you should feel. No scary spoopy editing to make you stand on edge. Just a chill guy telling you interesting albeit horrifying things. The way it should be. The best YT channel rn for content like this. You haven't strayed from your path to success yet, and I hope you'll keep doing you for a long time to come.

[@cthulhupthagn5771]

Exactly

[@rafael502]

I've always hated the spooky (more like annoying AF) BG music that many other videos tend to use.

[@DecayOpossum]

I always appreciate the lack of BG music and ridiculous editing in these videos. It always feels like people try to make history into dramatic horror stories, but Wendigoon just presents it in a more objective tone. Which, in my opinion, the history alone is horrifying enough. The music and editing in other videos just feels like they’re treating it like a creepy pasta being read over and not just real life history.

[@sabsain2399]

I absolutely detest the creepy music some people on awful crime commentaries. It feels disrespectful to the victims in a sort of way

[@mcsy98]

yeah im listening with earphones right now and just realized that wendigoon uses these soft calm piano instrumentals in the background

[@nian89]

I don't think 'monstrous' or 'barbaric' are words powerful enough to describe the evil of Unit 731. Malicious, ungodly, heinous might not even be enough for them

[@itsjohnnyr8560]

As a history major, I deeply appreciate you spreading awareness to history. I got into history to teach others about the mistakes of humanity and it’s nice to see you do exactly that. Makes me happy that you’re doing right by history.

[@clueless_cutie]

I'm sure history majors love the edited versions taught in our schools here in the US. We never even mentioned Unit 731 when we covered WWII and the only talking point around japan was Pearl Harbor and then nuking them. Nothing else of substance.

[@Alyssasplants]

@@clueless_cutie also they teach about the Japanese training camps in the U.S during the war and the racist propaganda against them

[@clueless_cutie]

@@Alyssasplants Yeah, you're right. I remember a short slideshow our teacher showed us the camps basically saying they were bad and then we moved on

[@geraldfreibrun3041]

I was shown by my history teacher in high school about Nanjing atrocities, it is interesting to look on what to focus on in a nations history whether that be the good, bad, and ugly. However I am skeptical if there are lessons to be learned, (we should still study the past regardless). As it seems we learn just so we can make new mistakes.

[@itsjohnnyr8560]

@@clueless_cutie That’s why people like Wendigoon are great for our field. He teaches people the things organized curriculum wanted to censor

[@TheBitingBat]

I've heard about unit 731 in passing many times, but hearing all of the atrocities committed put together is just heart wrenching. Their justification is even more haunting. They were an execution unit, so all those people were supposed to die and they figured they might as well use them for study. They hand waved their crimes by saying it was for science

[@ambatuBUHSURK]

that's just one unit, there were couple more that aren't as infamous

[@randomperson2012]

their though prosses is "if a recourse is gonna be destroyed no matter what, why not use it" which tbf is understandable with renewable, nonliving things but that applied to humans is just a nightmare

[@dough.boy.]

Sounds familiar huh? *cough co cough vid*

[@joyuz6583]

The thing that really gets me is that even with all that we know, all the atrocities we know to have been committed, all of the blood, cruelty, torture, indescribably pure agony that went on in this facility is that we might not even know the full extent of all that went on in this facility. Just… how can a group of people have so much darkness in their heart as to commit anything scratching the surface of these acts.

[@Histerdcap]

These experiments happened in many countries these are the ones we know about.

[@lazyassdre]

sadly it's really easy when you come from a homogenous culture that views it's subjects as less than human.

[@KarlosJKarlos]

It's the Lucifer effect in full force

[@918Mitchell]

Humanities default setting is evil.

[@AlbertWillHelmWestings2618]

japs have no souls mang what did you think

[@TequilaSunset_lynn]

A reason why Unit 731 is less discussed than Nazi Germany is that the victims are mainly Chinese and people from "socialism" countries while the victims of Nazi German are mainly EU countries citizens. It's a shame that we put different importance on the same-level-terrible anti-human crimes because of nowadays political conflicts between ideologies. No matter which ideology or political stances people believe are correct or the justification, humans shouldn't forget these crimes because of politics, or these things will happen again like Gaza :(( !!!!!

[@user-Tracykkkkkk]

You're absolutely right, that's the main reason.

[@Jetstream09]

:(

[@solala1312]

yeah I just read about the t*rture of prisoners going on in Israeli facilities. seems like little has changed and we as humanity have not learned anything.

[@nunyabusiness3666]

Way to stick you politics into an actual event. The comparison is laughable.

[@bigpapi6688]

Comparing the blockade of a city during a war to the atrocities committed against the Chinese people for over a decade is absolutely disgusting, and is a slap in the face to the victims of the imperial Japanese. Legitimately disgusting.

[@luka620]

Thinking endlessly of the two women who received the mirror. I am heartbroken that beneath the horrors documented by this entire tragedy is such a harmless human experience. Two women, sharing a mirror together. l wish I knew their names, but regardless, I hope they’re resting well now.

[@ElizaJ42]

I've been in a place without mirrors. I'm also thinking of those women. I can only see them as girls.

[@Fletchr86]

Happy you're talking about this. Very few people talk about the atrocities of Japan during the war, especially in Japan. I love the country and it's people but the denial of this history is pretty disturbing. I've known about Unit 731 for a long time, just a deep dive into Wikipedia one evening years ago. It was horrific to read about then, and is no easier now. The fact you will inform many more people about this is something to be greatly appreciated and valued.

[@spencerfoote6977]

I wished more people talked about it. Everyone was cruel in the war

[@Maria_Erias]

@@spencerfoote6977 War is cruel. But there were a lot of cases of people trying to do right. One of these was the work program that the US instituted for captured Axis prisoners. Axis POWs had a suspiciously high death rate at the camps run by the French after the liberation of France (for obvious reasons), so the US began bringing thousands of Axis soldiers back to America in work programs. These put Axis soldiers to work on farms and in factories, but rather than the slave labor seen in places like the USSR and Germany, these POWs were paid wages, taken into towns to shop and visit the cinemas, and were generally left to their own as a form of parole, so long as they returned to wherever they were billeted for the night. Seeing as how there was really nowhere for them to go if they tried to escape, and the fact that many of them had had enough of fighting, most of them simply worked their jobs and then returned to Germany when the war was over with money in their pockets. Very few tried to escape, and some even wound up staying in the US and becoming citizens.

[@KimchiFarts]

Japan’s crimes against humanity is rarely ever talked about and it’s so weird

[@recordbum]

@@KimchiFarts and now how they promote/allow pedophilia and rape in media as a form of "expression"

[@sowergamingbro5885]

The reason it's not talked about is because right wing nationalists are the ones writing the history books. They mostly just talk about pearl harbor and Hiroshima and Nagasaki for the entire WW2 curriculum.

[@gorbonator5008]

Fun fact, unit 731 was the group that discovered that humans are made of 70% water! I can only imagine how horrible those tests were!

[@wullfric]

Guess those dehydration tests did bear fruit. Now if only there had been some way of finding that out without LITERALLY DRAINING PEOPLE

[@Morec0]

​@@wullfricmore like bared raisins! Eyo!

[@mischievousjr.9299]

Goddamn that's going to be a crazy fact to spread. That is nuts bro got me worried about how no one knew that before Unit 731

[@ntynite]

antione lavoisier is actually one of the first people credited with figuring out the human body's water percentage, and he did it a couple hundred years before unit 731. AND he did it without torturing people. at the end of the day it doesn't really matter though because both were off by 10-20%

[@angelusvastator1297]

That's actually false.

[@benround948]

Why is my bedtime listening things like this….nothing settles me like stories of Demon cores, Chernobyl, The Elephants foot, Ed Kemper…..

[@YikersGrossout]

Wendigoon still managing to be the most wholesome person on the platform all while talking about the worst things in history

[@kclink1579]

Why are you so easily manipulated like that? He actually thinks you are a gullible idiot and proves it.

[@butteriest1634]

shut yo mouth

[@anayansiz]

The victims shouldn't be forgotten, and history must be known. Thank you for talking about this. It's just so horrible.

[@antibull4869]

They weren’t forgotten. Japan will never forget the fury of the sun being dropped on them… twice.

[@Whystling_Byrd]

Ooh I hope it involves maiming. I'm still watching...

[@dr_rowby.scramble]

When I heard "breeding stock" my eyes sprung a leak, man. My biggest fear is having a body used against my will, specifically forced impregnation, and to imagine the thousands of women, some probably younger than me, is horrific. I hope those mothers are living a peaceful life with their children in heaven.

[@imsleepy6211]

Honestly, yeah this is one of the main things that really bothers me.

[@kiarastaggs180]

@@imsleepy6211 What bothers me is knowing that this all came from the same country where some of the biggest icons of gaming were born. It was almost as if they were created as distractions so that nobody would remember the atrocities that happened in the past…….

[@IbrahiemLegoFilms]

​@@kiarastaggs180 bruh what lol

[@samuelclayhills3298]

Thoese kids wherent baptized so straight to Limbo for thoes fucks.

[@disappointeddogo184]

@@kiarastaggs180?

[@Starmadien2019]

The mirror story is haunting knowing that none of the victims survived. You feel disconnected thinking how could humans do this? How could you commit any of these atrocities? How do you get to a level where you forget humanity? They knew what they were doing, the scientists were sociopaths who saw only toys to play with.

[@TheRealWalt]

I think every Wendigoon fan goes like "Ah sweet! Man made horrors beyond my comprehension" every time Wendi drops a new video.

[@thelonehussar6101]

My thoughts exactly

[@SpicyButterflyWings]

And here we are, studying up on these man-made horrors so they are no longer beyond our comprehension

[@seangambone8534]

As depraved as it is, the worst of anything is that we think that governments won't do it again.

[@Shugg-Goff-HHoffical]

I know they just change thier tactics. Same as it ever was.

[@daxxjester]

Well now instead of rounding people up and forcing them to get sterilized, they are doing it to themselves voluntarily now

[@S8tan7]

As they love to say "if you think the government wouldn't do that, yes they absolutely would"

[@faejoifea]

You must be Chinese. The Chinese are in denial about the horrific things being done in Uyghur. This is very terrible. And there are few videos related to Uyghur.

[@faejoifea]

The U.S. investigated but could find no evidence. Let's not be fooled by the wrong video.

[@ch0o_choo]

i feel like there's a lot of sexual perversion in a lot of japan's worst crimes that are often not spoken about or covered up due to the culture's emphasis on maintaining good appearances and impressions. the culture of suppression is especially detrimental to the mental well being of people in the country. theres not a whole lot of crime that takes place there, but when it happens it's really, really fucked up.

[@theguybehindyou4762]

When they let the inner beast loose, they really let loose.

[@sabsain2399]

​@@theguybehindyou4762 what does that have to do with anything?

[@Anti-FreedomD.P.R.ofSouthKorea]

The Germans went for the numbers. The Japanese went for the extremecy- especially towards women because there's just more to "get out" of them.

[@vh4990]

@sabsain2399 it’s a dam, a dam with alot of water behind. Very POLLUTED WATER that is straining the dam, and when these dams inevitably break, the results are horrific. 1938 - Tsuyuma Massacre 1968 - Tochigi Patricide Case 1989 - Sakamoto Family Murder 1994 - Matsumoto Incident 1995 - Tokyo Sarin Gas Attack 1999 - Murder of Shiori Ino 2003 - Super Free Rapes 2019 - Kyoto Animation Arson Attack 2020 - Hana Kimura Suicide

[@jiqian]

@@vh4990 Not to make it a cruelty completion, so for the sake of cordiality I won't name the specific examples, but some of the ones you've mentioned there are... Well, are really not all that fitting to a description of "very POLLUTED WATER" with "horrific results".

[@KriskitTheSignGuy]

It honestly gives me the shivers to know that a person can actually do this to another person and not see anything wrong with it.

[@Noxx55]

Thank you for not only being respectful to the victims, and completely understanding the gravity of the topic, but for also dispelling the illusion of our perspective on history. These were people who knew exactly what they were doing, and it's horrifying. The lack of consequences is upsetting, but I appreciate your outlook on the matter. Great work, keep it up.

[@Sunnyomori649]

Thats the beauty of Wendigoon

[@Dionaea_floridensis]

It's astounding how much the American view of Japan has changed since WWII. My grandmother, who was born in 1934, to this day holds a grudge against the Japanese since she lost 3 of her male family members in the Pacific theatre. Meanwhile, I'm learning Japanese and plan to work and live there in the future. My grandmother doesn't think ill of me she knows things have changed, but she will carry her grudge to her grave.

[@se7ente3n]

my grandfather was like that as well, he was a child when pearl harbor happened and had uncles fight in it, and then he fought in the korean war. he def didn’t trust Japanese or chinese people for a long time, for some reason he was fine with koreans, vietnamese, and cambodians tho. didn’t care unless it was chinese or japanese

[@julianjaimes197]

Based grandma. Unless there's some specific industry you work in where you need to be in Japan for some reason, you're wasting your time. You could learn 4-5 other languages in the time its going to take you to learn Japanese, so you can move to a country with a collapsing population and some of the highest rates of suicide in the world. The trend of people in our generation running off to Japan because theyve watched to many animes is some of the whackest sht I've ever seen

[@fort809]

The Japanese were committing genocide in the 1930s and 40s, people had a reason to hold their opinions back then

[@douglassmalls6934]

@@se7ente3n Probably because we had allies in Korea and Vietnam when he was over there. Americans were fighting with the southern factions on both sides so their opinion was probably pretty high

[@joelapplin88]

Why would you want to live in japan? Cant even own a gun

[@iichiigo7751]

It really hurts to think of the sheer cruelty people are capable of inflicting on those they see as less than themselves. It leaves you with such a heavy heart to think of the terror those poor prisoners had to experience leading to their death, the things they had to hear and see knowing they were next. How hopeless and helpless they had to feel. Not a single survivor. No justice. Unimaginable.

[@philrogers611]

5:17 is when he actually starts

[@rluciano287]

Only wendigoon can get me to listen to such horrible events without making me feel uncomfortable. He's like that unhinged uncle filled with tales of woe but tells them so greatly that you forget how crazy the story is lol

[@hyrules_feral_hero]

our crazy uncle who we all love very much

[@gothamdarkknight3729]

It helps that there's no eerie, uncomfortable music playing in the background like so many other KZbinrs do it. Like, the atmosphere is appreciated for lighter topics like fictional horror stories, but for something like this, acknowledging it as a serious topic and discussing it with no extra flair is the only way to tell it.

[@MrRichManGuy]

Are you that much of a baby

[@akaisha0000]

I'm always shocked how little this is discussed. When I was much younger I learned about it through the cult horror film The Men Behind the Sun. I regret that I imagine a lot of people learned about this in this way. The fact we have to learn this from a low budget exploitation horror film from the 80s is tragic. We should absolutely be learning about this as a part of comprehensive world and WW2 history.

[@ravensthatflywiththenightm7319]

I feel like it's seldom discussed because of the Unfortunate Implications regarding the race of the perpetrators. With Nazis and Soviets it's easy because they're white. But when the war criminals are Asian, I think a lot of Westernized people find that uncomfortable.

[@ravensthatflywiththenightm7319]

@@okayida Hey I could be wrong. I hope I am wrong. But the fact remains barely anyone discusses Unit 731. Never mind a lot of other Japanese war crimes, from the death marches, the comfort women, cannibalism and the burning of live POWs.

[@quinn7427]

@@ravensthatflywiththenightm7319 ah yes, because western people are famously uncomfortable with demonizing those that don't look like them...

[@ravensthatflywiththenightm7319]

@ButterBean I received no comment. That's weird. I'm sorry to hear about that. I would have been interested to read those for my next novel.

[@tanknerd7193]

One can only imagine what kind of experiment logs were lost to that fire. What horrors have now been reduced to ashes and what crimes have been unpunished by the paranoid and the afraid. May those who suffered at the hands of this monstrous group find peace, knowing that they can do no more harm.

[@rotting-shrimp]

fr :(

[@Andrew-ms2xh]

2:50 looks like he gonna say "she doesn't even go to this school"

[@Satou_Rin]

I’m Japanese, and I’m honestly a little less ashamed of the fact that this happened within my nation’s history than the fact that there are people so desperate about their sense of national pride that they deny the truth about it. Even if it’s shameful and difficult, admitting it happened is the only way we can ever make amends. It’s the honorable thing to do. That being said, I am not at all surprised the Imperial Japanese would use their own guards as test subjects. So many men sacrificed themselves during the war because they believed the honor of dying for their nation was worth more than their own lives. Their way of thinking led to so much loss- loss of the enemy and loss of their own people. Even more reason to hate the Imperial Japanese.

[@Excelsior1937]

Yeah, Germany showed the whole world how to properly respond when you’ve done something horrible, and it’s so frustrating when our countries just ignore their example and keep pretending they never did anything wrong.

[@Sputterbug]

and they used their own nationalism to justify attacking non Japanese within their own country (ie the massive earthquake in the 20s)

[@lucasmetzger1154]

W

[@lesigh3410]

@Michelle Literally the Japanese govt has been doing everything they can to cover up and downplay their warcrimes. Just look at the way comfort women and such get talked about over there. The government doesn't regret a damn thing they did; they don't deserve to be forgiven if they try to pretend that their injustices never even happened.

[@Darthskeptic420]

Exactly. Like for example German people are like “yes the holocaust happened but we aren’t them it should never happen again” but some Japanese people (definitely not all) would rather just forget that it happened

[@andyhinds542]

Very well researched and very disturbing. I am of the generation that knew British people who were POW's of the Japanese and they were so traumatised because of their experience that they wouldn't talk about it. In fact, according to historical documentation, even the Nazis were shocked by the Japanese's treatment of prisoners.

[@ScarletImp]

...Wow. When you can shock even the *Nazis* by your inhumanity...

[@gasmaskman1354]

You know your evil when the Nazi's are saying turn down the genocide

[@SpiritOfMontgomery]

@@ScarletImpdon’t look up Oskar Dirlewanger….absolutely insane

[@therandomlaniusedward2140]

​@@SpiritOfMontgomeryEven nazis were horrified by them

[@lukecodz]

its absolutely insane that these "experiments" can make nazis look humane compared to these people

[@mastereppsreturns6586]

The fact this is all done under the guise/excuse of "science" to see what the human body can take, yet they clearly got sadistic pleasure out of it, makes this 10x more disturbing

[@Firestorm422]

Maybe the worst or best part? The information gained from this evil is the foundation of modern medicine. Without this it's very likely our medicine would not be nearly as advanced as it is

[@kingfishjoel]

You would probably be very surprised at how many doctors are psychopathic, dark triad types.

[@jamesmathis1473]

Even though every community has a light and dark side, it's something like horrific events like the Holocaust and unit 731 made me question and doubt why people would still believe in science when bad actors or the vocal minorites who used science as to gain power, control and make people who are scientists and people who hardcore believe in science who are good and have beneficial intentions look bad, maybe that's my theory on why some people don't trust medicines and stuff like that.

[@DaveLikesLimes]

The extra super crappy thing about all this is that they didn't even actually learn anything useful. The "experiments" were not at all about genuine medical curiosity or desire to obtain information that could help future patients. Just pure sadistic torture for torture's sake.

[@mcmann7149]

I liked that you covered the fact that these people fully know what they were doing was wrong and still did them anyways. If these people were in a horror movie, I'd tell the writers that they were full of it and that it's beyond my air of suspension.

[@DarthBigBen]

They made a horror movie about Unit 731.

[@crowlord8451]

​@@DarthBigBenwhat is it called?

[@DarthBigBen]

@@crowlord8451 Man Behind The Sun.

[@JillLulamoon]

That's by far the most terrifying thing about WW2. All the evil done, for the most part wasn't done by sociopaths or cartoonish villains. It was done by pretty average normal people, who massacred, tortured, raped and pillaged.

[@thekingofclowntown]

i think what scares me the most is the idea that something disgusting like this is most likely going on right now, and is just being hidden from the public. also them being granted full imunity makes me suck to my stomach. even with the little info they had, they shouldnt have granted full imunity. imagine murdering hundreds of people in the most brutal ways imagineable and just walking away with no repercussions whatsoever

[@ScintillatingSunglow]

Xinjiang, China

[@gemmadirenna7712]

The Uiygur

[@anomitas]

Yeah in china

[@recmuralartcommission1993]

CIA blacksites

[@JuiceBoxHero98]

Why do you think the US has thousands of children missing?

[@isoscelesjones375]

Given how hard it was to bring something like this to light, It is always disturbing to think about how many things we won't ever know.

[@hamclapper2654]

You almost made me cry at the end man, I really appreciate a mature and level head walkthrough of this awful stuff

[@timliu4028]

Being Chinese, 731 and the Rape of Nanking still is one of the most tragic and traumatizing events thats ever happened in history. The worst part is, no one will admit to it and almost all got away with it. Goes back to the quote, if you forget your history, you are sure to repeat it.

[@zersky495]

@@user-qv5sm5dw1v Good job brushing off his sadness over what Japan did to China and going to straight into whataboutism bc you hate Communism. You’re definitely not an arrogant asshole 👍

[@xenophagia]

Tiananmen Square. The great famine.

[@lithium1770]

also the tiannamen square massacre.

[@sowergamingbro5885]

That's because they're government is not teaching it. Most Japanese are not multilingual so they can't understand outside sources. Also tiananmen square and Uyghers

[@j800q]

@@user-qv5sm5dw1vsaying that communism is worse than japan is the most stupid shit ive read in a while. Like sure you can hate the ideology and say that it caused a lot of deaths but the pure horrible shit the japanese did in the war dwarfs that all. The japanese soldiers were playing catch with fetuses with tehir bayonets. Aint seen any chinese soldier do that

[@blazinkatana4561]

The fact he opened up a sponsor by dressing like the unibomber is crazy 💀

[@Machoman50ta]

Right ? It feels like we are in a movie if we died the worst way possible some youtuber would talk about me while telling us to download shadow legendds its embarrassing and disrespectful

[@Nexus_Simulations]

​@@Machoman50taI think this was all satirical. Not actually meant to make fun of anyone.

[@thereal_hannahmontana]

It felt satirical and as an “Easter egg” since he had a video regarding Ted Kaczynski released recently after this video. Maybe not the best in terms of how it was done, but I don’t think he purposefully meant any disrespect or making fun of anyone

[@cjwitachop]

@@Machoman50tashit was funny shut up

[@jedd.0322]

​​@@Machoman50tayou suck 😅😅😅

[@itisyebadger]

Unit 731 and Nanking are the most depressing and terrible things from the war that are not heavily covered. It’s terrible what people do when they are afraid and angered.

[@duderitoz6953]

Its sad how everyone acts like the atom bombings were the worst atrocities considering how nanking was so out of control the nazis said something

[@itnotmeitu3896]

@@duderitoz6953 ww2 was one of the few times there were objectively good guys

[@duderitoz6953]

@It not me It u yeah exactly my point. The media had a big push in the 80s for marine vets to forgive the japanese, that was so tone deaf. Most of em werent even aware of the extent of the horrors those brave men endured for several continent's freedoms

[@ravenchiiiiiiiiiiiii]

1:50 thanks for the trigger warn. I would normally go through it and watch the whole video but i wont be doing that. So instead i'll leave a comment thanking you for speaking up about this harsh topic ❤

[@ocker58]

It's insane to think that this was almost completely lost to history, it makes you wonder what other horrid things are just entirely unknown

[@vincentsun886]

Chinese has all the archives, but nobody listened

[@振华杨-o6z]

​@@vincentsun886Yes, both the Japanese Government and Western governments are using the media to try to cover up these crazy and cruel historical facts. Even Japanese history textbooks rarely mention the fact that they invaded during World War II. What is even more ridiculous is that Japanese history is an optional course. They want to play down people's memories of this history in order to create a positive image of them. From the current behavior of the Japanese Government can also be seen, the nuclear waste water into the sea pollution of the entire Earth is harmful to the interests of all humanity.

[@gingerbreadman1969]

It does make your skin crawl because you KNOW there are so many horrible things that have been and most likely, are still happening to this day. 😢

[@ocker58]

@@gingerbreadman1969 oh not even most likely, it's most definitely which is just so sad

[@MetodaMAN]

Apparently alot of heinous shit with lil usefull information. Lot of rape

[@Simonomaly]

Korean viewer here; I remember learning about this back in elementary school and feeling sick for the entire time we discussed this topic, to the point that it affects me to this day. What the victims of this atrocity had to go through is absolutely horrendous and it it appalling that these types of war crimes are actively being covered up, or not being acknowledged by the Japanese government. Thank you for the informative video and for spreading the word on this topic; as horrific as 731 is it is important for people to be aware of it and similar atrocities.

[@barnacles1352]

elementary school?? they couldnt even wait till middle or high school?

[@nineten-eu4ig]

I’m Korean and I didn’t learn this in until middle school

[@EngelSpiel]

I heard there's a holiday in South Korea for when the US liberated them from Imperial Japan.

[@angelusvastator1297]

@@barnacles1352 some people learnt about holocaust, slavery, imperialism etc back then but ofc it was sanitised as hell

[@JBlades88WV]

I never learned about any of this in American public schools. I mostly remember learning about slavery, the Holocaust, and most major wars. Didn't learn much about world history until a little bit in high school. Mostly was all just US History.

[@invidatauro8922]

This story is… a perfect view into the sheer depravity that humanity can fall into. The type of thing that happens when you don’t see people as people, but something lesser. It’s a good lesson for everyone about what happens when one lacks empathy

[@anudev2921]

ok empath

[@bull1085]

@@anudev2921”as an empath myself I can sense when enemies die,” Max0r, _An Incorrect Summary of Ultrakill Part 2._

[@Ehtbhtbrjjd]

ok so this probably sounds weird, but just based on this comment I'd absolutely recommend Undertale to you

[@invidatauro8922]

@@anudev2921 Never call me that. I hate that fucking term.

[@K-lg5hk]

@@anudev2921They may not be an empath, but you are a psychopath if you can listen to this and feel nothing.

[@edward.doctor1892]

"Boy I sure wonder where 70% of the human body is water came from"

[@baconduck5816]

There's multiple reasons on why this is one of the worst atrocities ever: Arguably the most extreme and depraved torture acts ever documented It was completely organized and part of a government research program It was on mostly innocent civilians Majority of the perpetrators got off scot-free Japan has still never formally apologized to the nations affected It's rarely ever talked about and most people have no idea it happened

[@aby110]

That's why I didn't mind Shinzo Abe getting his fascist chest blown to smithereens. Imagine denying such war crimes.

[@corenlavolpe6143]

​@@aby110 Doesn't matter if the guy sucked, it's in bad taste to celebrate and normalize killing people over politics. That's literally called terrorism. I'm certainly not gonna mourn him either but you don't have to be a dick about it.

[@HighCoupDeTat]

Imagine calling people logs and later an anime about ninjas has "Substitution jiutsu

[@HighCoupDeTat]

@@MaTaMaDia well you wanna talk about whats allowed and why ill bring up how sonic completely plaigerized dragon ball, but i was pointing out the irony in the matter.

[@HighCoupDeTat]

@@MaTaMaDia actually....the irony is they once again have tyrants in power and are using coal again for heat and power. Despite what the rest of the world has to say about how bad it is. The coal furnaces could easily once again burn bodies

[@PandaGirl3151]

i really appreciate when wendigoon brings you back to reality at the end of a video by talking about humanity's good. as someone who is interested in things like this but gets paranoid easily, i cant express enough appreciation for it.

[@namesareoverrated1823]

At the 10 minute mark, Wendigoon talks about the few " accidents " that happened at the unit, where prisoners escaped and went into the Chinese Countryside. Some comments ,and Wendigoon himself, say that there were no survivors of these experiments, but I want to hope that those who did escape managed to live peacefully afterwards. Just that there are no testimonies from the victims bc they did not want to be recognised as victims, which is equally tragic and heartbreaking. I could be wrong, but it feels like small chance of good in an evil situation

[@CapraDaAlbaRegia]

Quite a white pill but I sincerely hope it is true

[@Iron_Stigmata]

He stated that no one escaped the new site / building, this is correct. The escapees were of the previous site.

[@Shadow7-m5v]

"Hi guys, today we are talking about one of the worst Human experiments in history of humanity but not before we hear a word from RAID SHADOW LEGENDS" 🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯💯

[@whdbcjebevsjznbfuenwbdfuic5773]

insanely disrespectful

[@the-nightmayor]

"They had all that, it didn't change anything" is such a profound statement on most of history. Almost universally, people are more like us than we think, regardless of time or geography, and their actions are of similar weight.

[@godwarrior3403]

I'm so glad to see this sentiment. I'm Christian, and I believe the bible 100%. That means I believe people have always been accountable to pretty much the same moral rules for all of our history. Always bugs me when I see historians or history fans, Christian ones specifically, saying we can't judge the past by today's morals. We don't have "today's morals" we have morals that have always been there. It never wasn't a big deal to do horrible things.

[@cryptixart_]

I don’t usually get queasy or overly disgusted with these kind of stories since I’m constantly watching videos on these horrible murders and other kind of gruesome crimes, but I can confidently say this is the most disgusting case I’ve ever come across. This was the first time I have genuinely felt sick to my stomach over a case. Everything about what happened to those poor souls in Unit 731 was just downright evil and I hope everyone who lost their lives there can at least rest in peace now.

[@jimbomillit2544]

Thanks for taking the word right out of my mouth

[@TimPool.BeanieCivilWarlord]

Yeah, the story of Unit 731 is one of those things that when you tell people, they find it hard to believe to be true that there was anyone more brutally tortuous than the Nazis.

[@JohnnyTromboner]

And then the US let the people in charge walk away in exchange for the data from those "experiments" or coming to work for US agencies project paperclip style

[@72tadrian65]

I don’t know why I watch this thing first thing in the morning. This is really going to mess up the rest of my day…. The injustice of this is just unimaginable.

[@BlackMoonHowls]

@@TimPool.BeanieCivilWarlord The man dosed with 20,000 rads, once they tried to help him it became torture after, everything fell apart at the end, no pun intended and the guy became a robot. Every function of his body was completely automated at the end. That made me sick and hard to believe, but Unit 731 maybe be somewhat boogyman-ish so is the Russian Sleep Experiment. That was is really weird. I read a MLP FIM Fanfic entirely surrounded by the sleep experiment idea in mind. That in itself is even harder to believe by non-bronies. The fanfic titled, "The Sleep Apple Experiment" is just as wild and wacky as the original tale or other telling's of it, I mean it's just inspiration and that's magic, but by no means is the fanfic any greater than the original story anyways.

[@stickypepsi3236]

Thank you for covering this respectfully. When I was getting my undergraduate degree, I was an East Asian Studies minor and I remember in our course on Modern Japan we had someone do their research presentation on Unit 731 looking at it through the lens of history memory or something similar, and I just remember one of the students asking, almost gleefully or as if he was just searching something on LiveLeak, "What was the worst thing you encountered researching this?" Thank you for not replicating these sorts of fetishistic attitudes towards such historical tragedy and crimes.

[@TheHirohikoAraki]

Fans: Japan made manga and anime more popular than comic books! They did nothing wrong! Historians: _Should we tell them?_

[@PerfectCell937]

Ngl even then the two atomic bombs were a catalyst of the creation of manga

[@patricklewis9787]

Yeah anyone who has seen enough anime would know damn well they’re lying if they said Japan has done nothing wrong with a straight face

[@scroopynooperz9051]

Japan gave us the Sony Playstation and Super Mario... their transgressions are forgiven.

[@TheBelovedCC]

The scariest part for me is that we don’t know if that’s all that happened. There could be so much more to this than we’ll ever know. As stated, most of the evidence was burned and they tried to hide any and all evidence. We only have what was left. There could have been way worse experiments that could’ve occurred. And you may think; “well people that worked on this fessed up!” Yeah. Do what we *know* happened. What if there’s more that they didn’t confess to because they didn’t have to. Because we don’t know. The fact that we could only have the surface of what really happened in unit 731 is truly terrifying. I mean, we never had any *survivors* to tell what happened, they wouldn’t hide or sugarcoat anything but the workers had everything to hide. For all we know, this could be hand in hand with the holocaust as well. Not trying to overstep though. The Japanese were allies with Nazi Germany afterall. But that could just be my paranoia talking. That being said, unit 137 is probably the most cruel and unknown events in history *ever* and that is both sick and terrifying.

[@knitskrutt]

I'll tell you something more scary than knowing or not knowing about these cruelties. The fact that cruelties like this happened all over the world and in different times of history means that there is a monster in all of us. All it requires is the right conditions. Your ancestors didn't survive by singing songs at a campfire.

[@BirdBro2]

​@kimjong-paul this is why I think it's bad to judge people on single acts if you are put in a horrible position you could very well end up doing the same thing they did

[@knitskrutt]

@@BirdBro2 what do you mean? This is exactly the reason you should judge. So that other people will not do these things.

[@tobias7985]

​@@BirdBro2this comes of really bad. Of course you should judge people for their actions, thats how we progress. The implications of what you said gives off more worrying things about you than you intended

[@pitchforkpeasant6219]

@@knitskruttstill going on to this day. In the US as well