History Unplugged Podcast · History Unplugged
The East’s Auschwitz: How Imperial Japan’s Secret Experimenters Escaped Justice
·45 min·4 clips
Unit 731 left prisoners outside in Manchurian cold to freeze their limbs, then amputated them to study frostbite.
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A stark look at Unit 731, wartime impunity, and the machinery of forgetting.
History Unplugged treats Unit 731 as part of the wider record of wartime atrocity, setting Japan's secret program in occupied China beside the medical crimes of Joseph Mengele at Auschwitz.
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You want the hidden history behind Japan's wartime human experiments and the accountability questions that followed.
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