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Nah I'm good. I'll enjoy the video instead.

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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

I can’t fathom that

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

Apparently the subject didn’t like it

​@Billyi need proof to believe that

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

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.

@Cary RumleyExcept 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.

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

Not in this life at least

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

Xinjiang, China

The Uiygur

Yeah in china

CIA blacksites

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

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

I would like to see this some day😊

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 🌱

every country should have a museum like this

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

Ironic with constant snuff files coming out of there.

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

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

@General Grievousgermany was partially right though

@Sillimant Right in what way?

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

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

same, i feel sick

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

@2012 Taco Express SEEDEE Hole Everyone Should Be C people arent lamps wtf

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

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.

Were*

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!

Check out what the Chinese are doing to Wuigars right now

@Mountains Are the Shattered Teeth of God bless your heart. I hope you feel better now that you've chastised a total stranger on the internet. And in other news, I could care less about your opinion

In the US, no one got punished for the Tuskegee syphilis experiments or the various forced sterilization programs either. I always hate hearing about people getting away with atrocities.

I'm American and one of my history teachers went out of his way to show us a documentary on these experiments because it wasn't in the curriculum........ I didn't even know about gassing our own soldiers (the African American units) until I watched a documentary on it a few years ago because it was the only thing on TV (no idea if it was related to the Tuskegee experiments or not I trauma-blocked that from my brain for the most part). All I can say is I hope we never vivisected people to find out the effects of those things on internal organs.

all a bunch of revisionist doo doo - those things never happened.

@sentientplant the last thing American students need is more self shaming and guilt. Out of all nations except Germany, America is one of the most openly self critical and socially responsible when it comes to teaching its own bad history. Meanwhile MOST nations still have literal laws in place to prevent “slander” by discussing any history that makes them look bad like Turkey, Russia and China

@Dopamine Dreams "America is one of the most openly self critical and socially responsible when it comes to teaching its own bad history" >doubt

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!

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

​@Gabriel Góismore like bared raisins! Eyo!

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

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%

That's actually false.

I remember learning about the bombs dropped on Japan in high school and wondered how we could just do that to a country but it’s actually insane how one disaster prevented the literal bubonic plague they were gonna hit us with. This video filled me with a new kind of dread and perspective I wasn’t expecting from a YouTube video ):

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.

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?

Thanks for your country's contribution for such precious research

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

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

The fact that not a single prisoner in Unit 731 ever escaped with their lives is astonishing and mortifying. This tale is only told by those who did these atrocities and documented them, never a single survivor

Who would've guessed that no one escaped from a place that Is committing crimes against humanity ever day.

@Ian Waldrop way to miss their point.

@fartquavias dingle they didn’t get to the second sentence before replying 😭

@Ian Waldrop Ian, who hurt you buddy?

Thank you so much for making this video and sharing the history, I hope more people get to learn about these hideous crimes!

Really love your empathy for these topics, man. Whenever I want to learn about something new I know you won’t over-sensationalize or present anything distastefully. Really one of the best YouTubers out there.

It’s so frustrating that all of these disgusting things they did they casually got away with for what they did 7 years of labour is nothing. And it took them till not that long ago the names came out . I can’t even imagine how horrible it was to have to research all of this so thank you wendi for putting even more eyes on it

Eh 2 atomic bombs was a good punishment

⁠@Im Ryzewell that and an eternity of hellfire

​@Im RyzeConsidering we have no way of knowing if any of the people directly involved were killed by the bomb blasts? Not really. If we want to blame civilians for turning a blind eye on the atrocities committed by their government, we're going to need a lot more nukes. Oh yeah also not getting into the fact that survivors of the bombings were more or less used to observe the long term effects of radiation on the human body.

As a Chinese, we were taught to never forget what the Japanese did to the Chinese people during the war. Koreans were also taught the same way. People always say the atomic bombs dropped on Japan by the U.S. was overkill. This. This video is why the Chinese and Koreans are absolutely cool with the atomic bombs.

I can see why tbh. And if the nukes didnt happen america would have been victims to the chemical warfare as well.

Just pure pure pure evil. I have heard about this unit in the past. Just hearing it again turns my stomach. Specifically the children. As a father, the children/babies really get to me. Purely innocent. Watching my son grow who is now 9 months really puts in perspective how much children rely on there parents and how these evil evil evil people could do that. Absolutely sick. All of these actions are purely evil but "breading" children for experiments is just a completely different level.

Ah yes, another calming bedtime story from Wendi

What country r u from

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

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@Anthony Evangelisti I work third shift fym

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

As somebody who is extremely squeamish, I somehow managed to make it to 22:04 . I'm sorry that I couldn't finish the video completely, it's just too horrific and heartbreaking for me. I will say thank you for providing me something to listen to while I work, even though sometimes I can't make it through. Keep up what you do. ❤️

Please, please, please don't become more financially motivated than you have too. You're likeable, informative, believable. Love listening to you ❤

Why can't he make money? I always think it's so weird people want their fav Youtubers to not make money. You can skip the commercial if you don't want to watch.

Something to keep in mind when working with groups like this is that even if you're against what's going on you're powerless to do anything about it. If that guard tried to stand up for them because of where he was he probably would have ended up one of them.

Either outright shot to stay quiet or yeah, shoved into one of the cells with the rest of the prisoners. Change had to come from the top, and it never did

No. Its doesn't work like that. If your heart is not in the work you quickly committ suicide. Remember, these people often volunteer, and the duration of the job is indefinite and goes on every day for YEARS.

One of the most disgusting chapters of human history. And probably only a handful ever felt remorseful. And only a handful were sentenced. The anger I feel knowing this is limitless. I rarely wish anyone a slow and painful death - but everyone involved in this.. No possible amount of pain on them will ever satisfy me.

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.

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

Why do we get so much emphasis about the horrors of Germany but hear nothing about any of the other atrocities committed? The firebombing of Dresden is an almost entirely unknown event to the average person but was an absolutely horrific event. Even the complete obliteration of Nagasaki and Hiroshima aren't painted in as grim a light as what the Germans did. Everybody wants to just pretend it was good guys vs bad guys and leave it at that.

USA, Russia, China ect

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

I think there are 2 big takeaways from this video. 1) History is an exceptionally important subject that everyone must learn. I dont even mean it in the " are doomed to repeat it" sense. Understanding history, allows us to understand the capabilities of humans, whether it's prestigious events where we do the impossible and push mankind further, or events like this where you almost feel like we are parasites to this planet, and to each other. Understanding these histories, and how people felt during shitty situations like these, will help teach us and future generations that these are deplorable actions, so that we can at least reduce the odds of something like this happening. 2). No nation has a pure, clean history. A lot of people are quick to show hatred towards the Japanese, but fail to understand that these actions were performed by terrible, power-hungry politicians, that threw away their humanity, to get to where they are. Every nation has these people, the victims, and the bystanders who may intervene, encourage, or may live completely oblivious to atrocities around them. While we can't change the past, to prevent these situations from happening and saving those who tragically died in them, but we can at least learn them, and use what we have to prevent them from happening again

i've read and watched a lot of disturbing stuff in my life but unit 731 is the apogee of everything terrible and deprived in human history. i couldn't even finish watching "men behind the sun" because it's incredibly violent and graphic and most importantly based on real events. and even though it's been so many years since i first learned about 731 it still haunts me to this day. i mean before i found out about them i had read a lot about the nazі experiments and their other awful crimes but none of that could have prepared me for the level of horrors the japanese did. humans are the most disgusting and cruel creatures in this world and perhaps in the entire universe. our existence was a mistake.

facts

I was with you until the end. Completely false on that

Once again glad to see people covering this topic. I really was horrified to come across it in my internet travels and spent a solid week or so studying up on the history of human experimentation in general. Because I had to know, I had to know how low humans could go toward one another. If anything it puts into perspective so many of the little things people take for granted, like somebody simply saying "hello" to you on the street. If the two of you who smiled in passing were in just the right different situation... It could have been very, *very* different. Ordinary people. Normal people. People with no mental defects what so ever, merely corrupted by the popular thinking of the time.

THANK YOU for talking about this! I'm Korean and I'm sick and tired of the Japanese government just denying everything they've done (yes, there's more) and people who don't know better just meaninglessly throwing around the Rising Sun flag because it "looks cool". Your content is a godsend

Well then it's a good thing people like you are here telling these stories to keep them alive and honor the victims

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.

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

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

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

History is written by the victors.

Japanese, like all languages, uses words for many meanings. 731 is a strange numerical designation. Toying with a bit of very dark humour and questionable linguistics, a thought occurred to me. 7 = "shichi" as the original pronunciation for the number. "Shi" is the number 4 and literally means "death." Whereas "shichi" means "point of death" or "moment of death" as a combination of "shi" and "chi." In modern Japanese 4 is often replaced by "yon" and 7 by "nana" as alternate words for the numbers to ward off bad luck from these double meanings. 3 = "san" which doubles as "mister" or "miss" following a name. 1 = "ichi" and can mean "the best" but curiously also means "market," "location" or "place" depending on context. So with if 731 is pronounced "shichi san ichi" could it be a dark double play on words meaning "Mr. Dying Place" or "Mr. Dying Market." Disclaimer: Once again I am playing fast and loose here with alternate meanings. Thanks for the video!

I just have a tremendous amount of respect and appreciation for you uhh , " wendigoon "...I have been wanting to start a podcast of mine , for so long , but I've always been afraid of editing , complex graphics and shit , always thought that either that or some deep level life saving information was the required thing to retain the audience , but seeing your content proves otherwise ...thanks a lot man..

Just by hearing all this and imagining them is already a terrible thing. But the terror that a person went through when having their body ripped open and organs taken out, feeling all the pain and knowing imminent death... is beyond me. It is unbelievable that we know so much about German atrocities, but few know about these barbarities committed by Japan.

Wendigoon is definitely in the top 5 for best audio only bedtime stories to fall into sleep with. Thanks WGoon. Keep being amazing.

Thank you for exposing and educating us on the truth of what happened. Events like this are terrible, but if we don’t talk about them, we don’t fight against them ever happening again. The victims deserve to have this told. As hard as I’m sure it was for you to make this video, I’m glad you took the time and the emotional hurt to tell this. It should give people pause, as it did me, and make us aware of what evil can and does, unfortunately, exist in the world. Hopefully it will ignite some spark of good in each listener. Thank you again.

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.

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

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

Im all in for learning history, even the darkest parts, but this topic.. holy shit i cant even watch this and have to rely on comments for info, truly one of the worst and awful times in human history, major props and respect for Wendigoon for being able to discuss this in a lengthy video

I used to have a friend that once told me that he was alright with what they did! We had been talking about the messed up stuff governments do to people including their own, this is why we're no longer friends obviously. He said that they experimented on prisoners who must have done something bad enough to warrant being guinea pigs...I was gobsmacked at how absolutely cruel that was for him to say let alone think! I guess he took my stunned silence as agreement, which it certainly was not, and continued talking. He said that Unit 731 gave the world gifts of all the information they learned by doing those experiments, that the scientific, medical and military spheres were bettered by having that information. I was absolutely disgusted...I cannot put into words how horrified I was to learn someone I thought of as a friend and a smart and compassionate person could have such thoughts on the matter. I freaked out on him, saying he was a monster and to never talk to me again and that he should get some psychological help. He just looked at me dumbfounded and I blocked him on everything. I hope where ever he is, this was a long time ago, but I hope he sees this video and realizes how messed up his thoughts were/are.

Despite not being punished as they should have, it’s still a good feeling to know that shiro wasn’t allowed to die of old age, instead dying to cancer.

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.

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

This is information I needed to hear. I have a pretty incomplete knowledge of world events through history. I've known about how the japenese attacked japan but I didn't know about this. This must have been hard to put together but it really is things that should be known.

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.

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

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.

@Jeremiah M 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

They were heroes.

​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.

I'm pretty much desensitised to the brutality of war and what people can do to others but this, this genuinely makes mad, to me there's a point where people can do something so vile and decrepit to another that it makes me feel genuine this hatred to humanity.

Reading about it, looking and photos or videos is one thing. Smelling it is a another matter.

My takeaway from all stories like this, which always hit against me was "what we cannot allow ourselves is to justify things for the greater good" because humans can justify anything if it's for the "greater good"" becoming monsters in the process.

Not much talk of this in WW2. Lots of focus on the Nazi’s and in particular Auschwit (and rightfully so). I’m glad you are covering this for the reason as you said. Lest we forget doomed to possibly repeat. PS. Raid Shadow Legends hilarious needed relief needed before the horror show.

I think this should be mandatory learning for kids in school (minus the gruesome details) in a similar way to how the Holocaust is taught. I had no idea about Unit 731 at all until seeing this video, so clearly there's still a great need to make humanity aware of the existential dangers that come up when we use the power of state authority to grant moral license for monstrous behaviours. We have to challenge the power of major institutions and governments to enable this type of systematic cruelty and teach younger generations to arm themselves with the instinct to fight back against mass moral complacency.

I saw "Men Behind the Sun" years ago and couldn't sleep properly for weeks. My grandfather has some very terrible but interesting photographs and other media from the period. Many of the things the Japanese did - especially in China- were beyond awful. When people try to excuse Japan's actions in WWII (and yes, people do that) or try to demonize the US further over the nuclear bomb - I just remember those photos and things... yeah, I think the nuclear bomb was justified and necessary to end what the Japanese were doing all over Asia.

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.

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

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

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.

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

It’s terrifying to wonder many lives have been lost in horrific ways and their memories, any evidence they ever existed, have been lost to time because the cover-ups WERE successful. This almost got covered-up but ended up being discovered but I’m sure there are so, so many stories we’ll never know and people who died never getting any proper recognition.

My grandmother fled Shanghai with her younger sister as children when Japan invaded for the countryside. She told me she saw other children wandering, many of them malnourished and some starving to death. I still wonder what other things she remembers but don’t wanna have her relive that crap.

You told this in a very respectful manner and in a way that made it way easier to stomach. I appreciated your chat at the end, and congratulations to your girlfriend. That’s great

The first time I learned about Unit 731, Zhongma Fortress, Shiro Ishii, the human experimentation, the imunity deal, etc. was - shockingly - from a _Doctor Who_ short story. A _Doctor Who_ short story! Not a history book! The story read like an over-the-top thriller with fictionalised elements of brutality and violence. Then I looked it up afterwards and found out so many of what the story depicts and mentions wasn't fictionalised at all...

Thank you so much for covering this, it happened in my hometown, so traumatic for our entire nation.

Crazy that he got a raid sponsor for one of the least advertiser friendly topics he could possibly cover

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I'm wondering if any of the prisoners that you mentioned escaped into the countryside survived long enough to record any of their experiences

Kagome Kagome (Circle You, Circle You) is a particularly creepy vocaloid track I discovered years ago—loosely based off of the children's game of the same name—and the song is performed from the perspective of ghost children; while trying to entrap someone in their game, they recount how their final days involved horrific torture and gruesome death during sadistic experiments. One line that still haunts me: "they take heads from off our shoulders", and getting to the point in this vid in which the decapitations are brought up sent me back to this song. While the song also loosely brings up experimentation that aimed to seek out "the killswitch on death" (implied to have been a part of nazi experiments, though I've only read that through discussions of creepypasta in the song's comment sections), much of what the song entails also echoes some of the horrors committed by unit 731.

As someone who's a little newer to the channel one of the things that's unsettling to me is how close all of this was to just not existing. One thing I noticed too is how it really seems like most of the time in order to get the truth you have to get away from your own government aand look at documents and deals in foreign govments that they make with each other in an environment where they're not allowed to lie, or at least don't have as much as an incentive to lie or at least as much

This was truly sickening to listen to, just evil in its purest form. I'm glad that we know and remember, atrocities like these shouldn't be allowed to be forgotten, not ever.

I read about this when I was back in high school after digging deep into the camps that used to exist. There ofc were other Nªzi ones that were almost as bad, but this one is absolutely the most disgusting and horrific

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.❤

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

@18-carat run of bad luck you are very funny

​@18-carat run of bad luck 😐

@18-carat run of bad luck wow hilarious

@18-carat run of bad luck you can talk about both. it's not like disliking one thing excludes disliking another

One thing that may explain the Guards doing nothing despite being aware of the suffering is the very real likelihood that saying anything would result in them, their families or both being forced into the experiments and the sheer level of atrocity of the surviving records alone makes it clearly a fate worse than death.

“They were claiming the labs were to find cures for diseases that befall soldiers, but they were actually finding out new ways to spread diseases to enemy fighters” Now why do I have the strongest sense of deja vu?

In regards to all atrocities and war crimes, repeat after me; "It's ok when America does it!"

You pointed it out very well at the start. We know that certain individuals with all manner of mental and personality disorders are capable of committing terrible acts much like those perpetrated in Unit 731. But imagining an entire government, a body of "scientists", employees and staff, all in full agreement of conducting these atrocities as part of their jobs... it is beyond what we normally can conceive. I would even imagine that a large portion of those involved would never actually commit such acts for personal gain or pleasure (as for example a serial killer would), and yet, they did in name of "something greater than themselves".

That's what happens when people are convinced that they are better than everyone else, that they are the best people and everyone else is barely human or have lives worth the same as them. A product of ignorance, and quite the superiority complex. It's easy to be cruel when you view your 'test subjects' as subhuman.

NOPE. it just was cut people open or be cut yourself@Murray

Exposing these horrors , studying these horrors. Gives us sharper tools in the battle between good and evil . thank you

My favourite part about this video is that ending. As someone who consumes this kind of content, I often feel a wave of hate wash over me, but then I remrmber that there are good people, which makes it easier!

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.

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

Don't forget Stalin and his shennanigans

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

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.

Abu ghraib, MKULTRA

Unit 371 gives me chilling goosebumps no matter how many times I hear about it. Truly one of the most disturbing and frustrating events in human history.

Excellent video. I weep for those people and children. I hope you are taking care of yourself, @Wendigoon. This stuff can seriously weigh on the spirit. It certainly does on mine.

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

While the topic and info in these videos are horrific they are so necessary! I always try to see the hood in others but it would be a huge mistake to go thru life with those blinders on. There are most definitely monsters among us that we need to be aware of in order to protect ourselves. The scary thing of this situation is that Japan isn’t the only one to do these types of experiments.

This was horrifying to listen to. Thank you for researching and condensing the information for this video. Please do take mental health breaks when you need it

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…

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

The fact they call it colonial history is deplorable.

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

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.

It takes a lot for me to say that I flat-out hate someone, but when it comes to a figure like Shiro Ishii, I can absolutely make an exception.

As you said "when someone thinks someone else is less than human or Japanese" anything is possible. We humans don't see rattle snakes as humans so we hunt them annually. Their heads are sometimes cut off to see how long the body wiggles and fangs can be deatly. We also kill and eat (sometimes alive) Octopus though we know they are sentient. Imagine how a sentient animal feels when you can't hear them and they are being eaten alive!

I'm just glad someone is actually talking about how horrific Japan was before and during WWII. Most peoole tend to forget or gloss over everything they've done. I've even heard that modern Japan likes to pretend they never did these things and teaches their students they were neutral in the war (not sure how accurate that is)

The thing I've been wondering while watching this video is, How much of this information has later on been used in the medical field? Like, all of these things are of course completely horrible. But they are incredibly specific per situation and stuff. Most of the medical information we collected long ago have come from watching sick people and dissecting them and writing everything we saw down. And sure you mentioned that everything was destroyed, but I can imagine that those documents were not only kept inside that building? That would be incredibly stupid. I'm just curious and trying to look at this in a neutral way. Like I mentioned before, everything that happened there was extremely horrible and everyone should hear about this so that everyone can learn that shit like this has happened and are horrible.

I was lucky enough to have an amazing history teacher back in the 80’s. He taught us about thinks such as unit731. It was an excruciating experience for all the right reasons. As he said, all history is dark and bloody when you look deeper than the surface. I make sure that my daughter is learning about such things as she goes through her schooling. It’s incredible how much they skip over or avoid completely. Keep up the great content!

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

stories like this need to be told over and over so that people can be educated. good work.

You know that feeling where you wanna hurt someone for the horrible things they've done, but you're completely powerless to do so? Yeah. That feeling sucks...

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

It really sounds like what would happen if you put psychopathic serial killers in charge of “science” and told them “no holds barred, do what you want.”

Ah my daily dose of trauma . Thanks Wendi 👍🏻

Excellent video, as terrible as the story is you did a incredible job covering the information. Thank you for sharing.

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

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

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

@Sercer25What 💀

He handled this video in a classy and respectful way. Horrifying to the point I felt bad for the clear ware in his eyes relating it all

When you talked about how for the evil, there is good in the world, I thought of something, cus like, there were those people that commit unbelievably atrocities. But you also must remember the goodness of those who fought and fought to out them and reveal them for the monsters they were

Knowing the human body's limits back then had only one method. It's brutal and sad. Lots of our knowledge I think is very theoretical, but with extensive studying of interactions between materials. We're lucky to be alive at this day and age. Imagine being the guy exposed to lethal amounts of radiation and being kept alive to see what happens. Despite all that, it makes me wonder how much of the human body we know about today thanks to these sorts of extreme experiments.

Tbh this seems preferable to them dying for no reason 😢

It's strange how military research sometimes leads to useful things like the nuclear power plant. I imagine during this horrific testing, they'd learn something that could also be helpful in medicine.

There's nothing that relaxes me more than listening to wendaddy talk about something totally deranged

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

the rest of the story had a lot of other people dying

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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.

The fact that My grandpa was alive when these were happening is insane. We're no different from people back then. We have the same brain and same capabilities. Just a different cultural setting. So hard to grasp my mind around that.

thank you for using soothing music in the background of this because it is a hard one to listen to and I think those that have been through this deserve to have their story heard. When others put haunting music tracks behind these kind of videos it also gives you a bit of that trauma lol just different and I like that

In regards to the scientist with the mirror... He may have "had his ears open to the atrocities," but one scientist can only do so much against an entire regime. Best case, he'd've been executed swiftly. More likely, he would have been imprisoned and forced to partake in the experiments, himself. Humans have a distinct instinct for self-preservation that is difficult to override for the safety of others, especially others who are effectively strangers.

I just found you! Where you been? 😂 You are wicked awesome!!! This story show just how dark humanity can get. When I was doing research for my M. A. (med. ass ) I came across an article about human experiments in the U S starting back to 1800s until early 2010s. The radiation experiments on poor, mostly black pregnant women is horrifying. My father was in Operations Crossroads in Bikini Islands. They used the enlisted Navy men as test subjects while all the "important people" were behind lead, my father talked about how he and a couple shipmate had to go into the engine room of their ship (a target ship) to get it started, after having to scrub outside of the ship. His ship was the only one that made it to Hawaii which won't let it port cuz of radiation so it was sunk 60-100 miles from Oahu. My dad passed from multiple cancers in 1980. Thank you for all the hard and heartbreaking work you do.

I don’t understand how a person, who isn’t a psychopath could do this to a person. Even if they believed these people weren’t human who could do this to any living thing?

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.

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

The banality of evil

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

I just found your chsnnel today andvi am very impressed with your knowledge and professionalism when discussing such a horrific event, your acknowledgement of tbe victims Fantastic job. Also, i had never heard of this before and i am an avid researcher of all things horrific and shocking and gruesome and evil and i am subscribing and will be visiting frequently

What I remember from watching a documentary about unit 731 is that they experimented on twins and siamese twins were, on twins, one would be tortured to see how the other would react, or they would do one experiment on one of the twins and another on the other. I also remember for siamese twins they would cut them apart to see how they'd react to being separated among other things. Though this is terrible and horrifying, I enjoy these types of documentaries. They're very interesting and very depressing.