Japan’s secret Unit 731 – where biological warfare was conceived | RT Documentary
The terrible crimes of Japan’s secret Unit 731 make anyone’s blood run cold.
Thousands of people were used as test subjects for the development of biological weapons.
The subjects were injected with cholera, typhoid, anthrax, bubonic plague, to be later dissected alive.
The unit’s ideologist Shiro Ishii and most of his associates were never punished.
They became practising physicians or scientists.
Watch our film to find out why.
00:00 – Intro
01:46– Japan’s biological warfare project
09:16 – Unit 731: Human experiments lab
13:14 – “I infected people with plague, shigella, etc”
22:03 – Torture of women and children
27:57 – Hiroshima and Nagasaki: atomic bombs
29:10 – The end of Unit 731
32:30 – Did the U.S. become a safe place for war criminals?
34:35 – The start of the Cold War
36:28 – Testing on humans continued
45:21 – Only 12 members of Unit 731 were tried
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