The Most Disturbing Human Experiment Ever
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Crazy how every detail of German atrocity is common knowledge, but things like this occurring simultaneously in Japan are almost occult knowledge
USA, Russia, China ect
Cause most of the ones about germans are made up
@@koolaidman4869 the Germans post ww2 were exterminated in Poland and königsburg, too.
@@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.
@@itnotmeitu3896 Hell the Germans were even raped by the Soviets.
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
@@billy6044i need proof to believe that
Huh if you slowly drain a body of all the blood and hack it apart with various blades the person dies…who knew
I learned about the atrocities of Unit 731 in one of my Japanese classes in college (taught by a native Japanese woman, born and raised in Tokyo). I later wrote an essay on it for my history of Japan class with a different professor, so this was more of something I was just watching because "oh yeah that's something I'm familiar with" and I enjoy Wendigoon's videos, but...honestly? There's some context missing from this that makes the actions of Unit 731 way, way worse.
It's not even that the people working at Unit 731 were "uneducated" or "tricked by their government". They knew full well what they were doing. What people don't seem to realize is that Japan has a history-and at the time was having an extremely strong period-of nationalism. Japan is actually the *only* Asian country to be considered a first world fully developed state. China and Korea are actually still developing (I've studied this as I double minored in International Studies in college). And I'm not saying that as something negative against Korea or China, but Japan went through rapid industrialization during the Meiji Era (from 1868 to 1912, or around the Victorian England Era if that helps contextualize it for you). During that period and *beyond* , Japan looked at Western cultures and deemed them "superior" compared to their fellow Eastern countries. There's even an essay written around this time titled "Goodbye Asia" that I read for one of my Japanese classes wherein the author *literally calls people from China and Korea savages for their beliefs and way of life?* Like think of how European colonizers treated Native Americans, and that's...pretty similar.
Essentially what I'm getting at is that Japan had been viewing their Asian neighbors as "below" them, and wanted to be seen as equal to European/Western countries. Unfortunately this...didn't actually work out so well for Japan considering racism is alive and well, so while Japan could consider itself "civilized", Western countries were like "umm, you're Asian tho :/" Please note that Japan has this horrible horrible history as well of being *incredibly* racist towards anyone not viewed as "pure Japanese."
I'm sure many people have heard of the "comfort women" during WWII as well-Korean women who were taken from their homeland to serve as a way to...put delicately...curb the urge of Japanese soldiers to have sex with random women. There's plenty of controversy around this, including people who still claim to this day that the comfort women either did it willingly or their families were "properly compensated." I think after watching this video alone, you'll get an idea of how bullshit that claim is. Children of these women would also later be discriminated against for being only half-Japanese, and similarly Korean immigrants and their children were murdered because of some "blood purity" culture. It's genuinely not so far off from the "superior Aryan race" ideology of Nazi Germany, which makes you realize how these two powers were able to work together so well.
But that dehumanization of their neighbors (be that from China, Korea, or any of the Soviet states), made it so much easier to commit these atrocities. Dehumanization is literally the first step of oppression, and if you don't view your subjects as humans (see: referring to them as "logs") it allows you to do what these researchers did. It's horrifying, and to me it's even more horrifying that we'll talk about things Nazi scientists did but Unit 731 is rarely covered.
Just a small disclaimer at the end of this for a couple things: Japan does still have serious issues with acknowledging what it did wrong during WWII. But that isn't a reflection of the Japanese population as a whole. While Japan's culture is much more collectivist (compared to many Western individualist societies), reducing a country down to beliefs that aren't shared by everyone is narrow-minded and fails to recognize that no culture is a monolith. However, the issues of racism and failure to acknowledge accountability are still prevalent even today. If people speak against the use of the "rising sun" flag of Imperial Japan, you should listen to them, because for many Chinese and Korean people, it's the equivalent of seeing a Swastika.
Other disclaimer: Wendigoon did a fantastic job covering this subject, and it's literally just the "I know about this" part of me that wanted to add some additional context. I definitely don't want anyone thinking that the researchers were just misguided or coming away with the misconception that they were uneducated when it's quite the opposite. If you read this whole essay of a comment, thanks! Hope you learned something. Sorry for leaving such a long comment too on a months old video...
I genuinely enjoyed reading this comment. I like to hear perspectives from around the world and just other perspectives in general. Thanks for sharing
I'm from Brazil and your comment is as relevant as Wendigoon video itself. Thank you very much for sharing your references and point of view. Stay safe!
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Wow thanks for your input, and I like how you had to make it clear that they did in fact know what they were doing. I also like how you brought to light the mentioning of comfort women in Japan, and how Japan has yet to acknowledge any of its war atrocities. You made a well informed mini thesis, and it was quite interesting to read.
Thanks for sharing！I hadn't seen that unique point of view.
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
Chinese has all the archives, but nobody listened
@@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.
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. 😢
@@gingerbreadman1969 oh not even most likely, it's most definitely which is just so sad
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.
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
Yup. Its annoying.
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
@@drunkkillerwhalesdrivingwe are not a proud race. It's not a race at all.
And then there's the Soviets which commited atrocities for even longer after the war with most of the perpetrators never being held responsible
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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@@anthonyevangelisti9296 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 depraved as it is, the worst of anything is that we think that governments won't do it again.
I know they just change thier tactics. Same as it ever was.
Well now instead of rounding people up and forcing them to get sterilized, they are doing it to themselves voluntarily now
As they love to say "if you think the government wouldn't do that, yes they absolutely would"
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.
The U.S. investigated but could find no evidence. Let's not be fooled by the wrong video.
This is the perfect example of the reason we study history
We study history because if we don't remember the evil, it is inevitable to repeat.
I fear even that is not good enouge to avoid repeating it.
@someonesilence3731 maybe not, but it will always help us recognize it and put a stop to it fastrr if it happens again
You repeat a lousy cliché reason
@@wittica2925 It's actually a very important reason that most people sadly don't care about.
While people are busy stuck in the past. Evil is on to the next item on its list.
Crazy that he got a raid sponsor for one of the least advertiser friendly topics he could possibly cover
it’s raid bro we ain’t surprised
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I don’t think raid has any standards
"..and the past has shown that humanity is no stranger to, and will more than happily, commit unspeakable acts of horror upon itself, for reasons seemingly unknowable.
..speaking of atrocious acts of horrors that mankind is more than willing to commit upon itself for reasons seemingly unknowable, today's video is sponsored by RAID Shadow Legends."
You got it backwards, RAID was the only sponsor he could get for this one.
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!
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.
Or what the North Koreans are doing…
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?
Each one of these horrible things was someone’s actual fate. We watch horror films, but these people experienced them. It’s surreal
There’s a brutally long horror movie about this subject called Philosophy of a Knife
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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
The pregnant women, children and babys is the most heartbreaking of it all. to harm a child is insane
And yet, shockingly common.
Stop it! It’s all heartbreaking! The men who suffered, suffered unimaginable PAIN. Pure unadulterated pain which should NEVER be experienced by any living creature.
Their pain isn’t any less. You minimizing their pain is what leads to people believing cause some people pain isn’t as bad as others. Which is LITERALLY how this unit started. It’s ALL horrific
@@penta4568 yeah I agree but Women and children should take priority
@@penta4568 chill dude, nobody's going to come drag your MALE self out of your bed to a camp because they weren't reminded of that enough with your whining, they don't care. That's the issue.
@@tuanmohdarfantuankhusairry2977why? Are they somehow more innocent than their husbands and fathers and brothers? Do you think men are stronger so it's less bad to make them suffer?
Don't think that we're separated from this level of evil by time. Many people still have grandparents who were alive when these experiments took place. The world is still capable of this horror and people are still capable of going along with it.
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
@@anather7073why are u putting it like it's his fault lmao
@@anather7073what
"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
Japan: wow USA took this too far with nuclear weapons and killing our civilians.
Also Japan:
both can be true at the same time. fucking crazy how anybody ever thought that either action was even mildly okay. blows my mind.
@@irelandaintreal2945what’s blow my mind is that people is surprised that events like this happen is called evolution it have happens from the beginning only deference is the tools just got more advanced
I mean, the U.S. did admit that if they hadn’t surrendered they were planning on dropping up to 12 more nukes.
Fuck around and find out I guess.
Unlike the atomic bomb, there is no evidence of 731.
Both are true
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.
That’s insane i never even thought of that.
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.
"These war crimes are sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends"
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
@@thegamewasriggedfromthestart you are very funny
@@thegamewasriggedfromthestart 😐
@@thegamewasriggedfromthestart wow hilarious
@@thegamewasriggedfromthestart you can talk about both. it's not like disliking one thing excludes disliking another
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.
@@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
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.
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."
I learned about this because of My Hero Academia. One of the main antagonists of that series, Kyudai Garaki, was originally named Maruta Shiga in his debut chapter. After only 1 week of the chapter's release, the name was quickly changed and the Mangaka, Horikoshi Kohei, apologized for the insensitive nature of the character.
omg me too!! i was up to date with the manga during 2020 and saw the whole thing unfold on twitter.
Mha did one thing that was kinda cool and apologized for it.. never fails to disappoint
i learned about it thru spooky's jusmpscare mansion
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.
@@Quesoquantum 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.
@@disser3849 you fuck up our boat we drop two suns on you, get wrecked
If it's any consolation, Japan is going the way of the dodo and God has cursed them with anime.
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
@@GenghisClaus HEY-O
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@@GenghisClaus STOP
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.
"RAID SHADOW LEGENDS" most INSANE plot twist I've ever witnessed
imagine how many atrocities we don’t know about if THIS nearly got successfully covered up 🤦♂️
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.
You’ve never heard of the holocaust I’m guessing
@@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.
I would say hellish or living hell
@@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
@@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
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?,;:
@@tacoexpressSEEDEEholeeveryones people arent lamps wtf
Comparing literal objects that are not alive to human beings is almost crazy
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.
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 :(( !!!!!
You're absolutely right, that's the main reason.
:(
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.
Way to stick you politics into an actual event. The comparison is laughable.
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.
Didn't see them as human but knew they could impregnate them.
The fact he opened up a sponsor by dressing like the unibomber is crazy 💀
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
@@Machoman50taI think this was all satirical. Not actually meant to make fun of anyone.
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
@@Machoman50tashit was funny shut up
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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.
@@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.
RIGHT NOW. All over Africa, Mexico, behind Stalin's regime, North Korea... Just to make a few
This is just what was uncovered. Always keep your friends and family close and away from the g*v't kidn*pping hotspots.
@@Sercer25What 💀
AINT NO WAY bro decimated the atmosphere with a raid shadow legends sponsorship.
See, he mentions the fact that MacArthur didn't know the full details of 731, and says that he "hopes MacArthur wouldn't have offered full immunity" if he had known. If it makes you sleep any easier, that man almost certainly would not have, especially not after what he saw of the Philippines at the start of the war. Man had no love for Japan.
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.
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.
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
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.
So gross the US granted the scientists involved immunity (just so they could learn their “trade secrets”) and tried their best to coverup unit 731. The US used bio weapons in Korea. Go read about it.
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.
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.
For their own sick pleasure & having permission to do so just made it worse, smh 😔
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.
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
Pre-humbled Japan was insane
Its still insane
They're exactly the same now.
They aren't really humbled though. No one has been punished. The general public of Japan deserves to know the truth
pre humbled is crazy
Pre-humbled is an extremely interesting way to put it.
Rest in peace to all souls lost in this video may all your journeys in Afterlife be beautiful
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.
@@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.
@@Tearlach 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
@@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.
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.
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.
@@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
@@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.
@@marcshuman2287 you missed their point entirely
Anyone would be capable of such action given a situation where you either comply or be killed yourself
3:14 THE RAID SHADOW LEGENDS THREW ME OFF SO BAD-
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.
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.
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
Those are called war veterans.
@MD-cy8uj That's an ignorant statement. War is beyond words, but to limit everyone involved to such vulgar words is disrespectful.
A wolf in sheeps clothing
@@phoneaccount206 Well*
The fact that there were no survivors, the fact that there was never any justice, the fact that the destruction of records and the facility means we'll never know the true extent of these atrocities... For me, it's these things combined that outline how absolutely atrocious and horrifying Unit 731 truly was.
Edit: It's been 9 months now since I left my original comment, and I just wanted to come back to say that both before and since then I have never heard of anything as awful as what occurred in Unit 731. I'm not exaggerating when I say that thinking about it makes me furious every time, and I can't even hear the name "Manchuria" without being reminded of the events and feeling a pang of sorrow and disgust. I only wish something could be done to bring the victims the justice they deserve, but as it's too late for that I think the least we can do is make sure that we remember them; and if there is an afterlife, I hope they've found their peace.
"destruction of records" ??
@@thiago5372the researchers burned almost all their records when they realized they would be found out soon if they didn't. wendi mentioned it a couple times in the video
@@thiago5372did you watch the whole video? They destroyed most of their evidence
Ironic that this is coming from someone with a Griffith pfp lol.
@@Kyriesosa11 just what i was thinking hahaha
My nephew just finished a term paper on Japan in WW2. Just wanted to let you know that you sir was his first sited reference. His history teacher is also a fan of yours and I just wanted to say thank you for being so engaging and encouraging young people to do further research.
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Many of the experimenters also became infected by the experimentation I’m sure. Kind of a double edged sword 😢
I think every Wendigoon fan goes like "Ah sweet! Man made horrors beyond my comprehension" every time Wendi drops a new video.
My thoughts exactly
And here we are, studying up on these man-made horrors so they are no longer beyond our comprehension
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.
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.
Why "Mankind" and not the people who ACTUALLY DID IT?
If you blame everyone for the sins of a few, we all learn nothing.
@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.
@@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.
@@thepcuser4312 lol
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.
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.
definitely happening & israel definitely has something to do with it
Fans: Japan made manga and anime more popular than comic books! They did nothing wrong!
Historians: _Should we tell them?_
Ngl even then the two atomic bombs were a catalyst of the creation of manga
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
Look into japanese internment camps in north america.
Completely. I thought the things the Nazis did was bad enough, but at least Germany owned up to that.
@@Scar3crowssgermany 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
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.
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.
The thing is that they did know it was wrong they just didn't care
@@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?
@@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
Unit 731's torture footage was used in the VHS series, "Faces of Death." One part showed soldiers tying women's arms together in front of them at the elbows, slicing around their forearms with a knife and holding their arms in a barrel of acid. If that wasn't cruel enough, when their arms were taken out of the acid, the soldier dug his hands in where their forearms were cut, and with a downward motion, tore their skin and muscles away from their bodies, leaving mostly bone, ligaments and tendons behind.
It was disgusting.
It’s so scary how we don’t know everything that happened in that horrible place
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.
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.
😮
@@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!”
@@giovannicervantes2053 literally surprised Pikachu face to the extreme
They're not intrusive thoughts if they're always on your mind
@@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.
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
and also add a raid shadow legends ad at the beginning
"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."
He uses classical music
@Insanity good job captain obvious
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.
Why is my bedtime listening things like this….nothing settles me like stories of Demon cores, Chernobyl, The Elephants foot, Ed Kemper…..
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.
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
How was the topic of comfort women treated, out of curiosity?
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.
@@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.
@@user-tn7zh9rx3j 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.
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.
Great job and great style of video. Haven’t seen something like this for horror related content and I’m pleased. Thank you for taking the time to make it
As Stephanie Sterling often puts it: "The cruelty is the point"
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
The Japanese government acknowledged the atrocities but never officially apologized for them to this day
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.
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.
So they jut went on the surface. Of that .😢
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.
Holy shit… this made me cry
I have recurring post traumatic nightmares too, my heart goes out to you.
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
@@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! 💜
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?
The Japanese will never take accountability for anything
The Japanese government to be precise; shouldn’t blame these actions on all people.
731 after skinning someone alive and wondering why they died:
"Humanity, just as capable as it is for infinite evil, is capable of infinite good." I always love the wise words of Wendigoon--a man who takes on a lot of horror to share but somehow still has an amazing heart and sense of humor
I don’t believe in the good. Most good I’ve heard of was completely accidental. Ex: Huge advancements were made in Preemie care because the babies were part of a theme park attraction.
Go and do something nice for your loved ones. Participate in any volunteer work. Sit down and dedicate some time and effort to create a business, project whatever big work you can find that may lead to a better world tomorrow.
There, you've proven there is something good.
A realization that struck me a while ago is how difficult it actually is to be a genuinely good person. Even more so consistently. It requires effort, immense patience and sometimes even Incredible courage and strength.
In nihilism then, we find a sort of convenience. Saying there's nothing good out there and no reason to do anything, conviently bails you out of any responsibility to do anything that could make a difference. Because why should you with that conviction?
I'm not saying that's who you are, I am saying to make sure to never fall to such hubris. Make no mistake, bringing change, being something good will always require more work than other pathways. and will nearly always be the more difficult, longer way to walk
I mean those aren't his words. It's a real quote
@@kathrineici9811 You realize that the Coney Island preemie care exhibit wasn't an accident, right? Dr. Couney dedicated his life to raising awareness and saving the lives of those children. With the money brought in from the attraction, he didn't need to charge the mothers of those babies a dime for life saving treatments, round the clock nurses, and a devoted doctor.
His own daughter was part of the exhibit. He saved thousands of lives, just during his lifetime. More live today because of those exhibits. The thing to understand is the medical community at the time we're resistant to baby incubators. They were unwilling to invest in this new technology, without proof that it'd work.
But Coney Island was willing to make it a sideshow attraction. From 1903 to the early 40s. Incubators didn't become standard in hospitals until the 50s, after Couney died. So even after proof of concept was established, those in charge waited another decade or so, for him to die, so that he wasn't able to see them admit he was right.
Infinite good? Yeah in theory. I’ve only ever hear of infinite evil
Wendigoon still managing to be the most wholesome person on the platform all while talking about the worst things in history
Why are you so easily manipulated like that? He actually thinks you are a gullible idiot and proves it.
shut yo mouth
every single one of those war criminals lost its humanity.
Imagine being a member of that horror... knowing if you did not do your job you and your family will join them.
Fear is a great tool to subjugate.
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.
Very happy you're off the streets
It’s horrible, so sorry you had to go through that
@@TheGuiltsOfUsweirdo
@@TheGuiltsOfUsyou belong to the streets
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.
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.
@@shortking-vp9vv they legit got shrines for war criminals over there, its fcked up. Japan really does not give shit about its past
The real version of "I have no mouth and I must scream"
I need to go hug my puppy. Those poor people 😢
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
@@wullfricmore 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.
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.
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@@sir4978 cringe
What? People have been talking about unit 731 for YEARS. Don’t pretend like it’s something new
@@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??
im not usually squeamish but holy shit watching this made me feel sick
"guys there wont ge any jokes or sillyness in this video, AND NOW THIS VIDEO IS SPONSORED BY RAID SHADOW LEGENDS"
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.
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.
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.
@@TheAngryXenite Good, I’d like to keep at least a shred of my faith in humanity.
Im giving my mom the biggest hug when she gets home now
@@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.
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.
@@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 👍
Tiananmen Square. The great famine.
also the tiannamen square massacre.
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
@@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
Thank you! I am a Chinese. I would never forget this history (and Nanjing Massacre, which is another disgusting and terrifying thing that Japanese did to Chinese). What Japan did to our ancestors. And what our ancestors did to protect us from wars, to create a peaceful place for all of us. What makes me angry is that until now, Japan still haven't acknowledge what their ancestors did yet. They owe our ancestors an apology. Some Japanese even said these histories are made up by Chinese.
That ad transition goes crazy, I love it
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.
The only thing the Chinese government won’t lie about.
If only the CCP was that thorough in keeping up with its own human rights atrocities.
@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?
@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.
@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
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.
thank you for spreading this information
Japan today:🌻🎴
Japan in every other time in
History:🗡
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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
our crazy uncle who we all love very much
It helps that there's no eerie, uncomfortable music playing in the background like so many other RUclipsrs 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.
Are you that much of a baby
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.
Exactly
I've always hated the spooky (more like annoying AF) BG music that many other videos tend to use.
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.
I absolutely detest the creepy music some people on awful crime commentaries. It feels disrespectful to the victims in a sort of way
yeah im listening with earphones right now and just realized that wendigoon uses these soft calm piano instrumentals in the background
Damn those mfers were demons
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.
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
that's just one unit, there were couple more that aren't as infamous
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
Sounds familiar huh? *cough co cough vid*
Thats why i hate when the studio ghibli creator who calls Americans the only war hungry evil ones. Doesnt realize why his country is not even allowed a military. On top of this the horrible things done to filipinos and more simply bc thry took over their country
not him, i looked up to him :(((
@@fyouthishandleistakenYou really just gonna believe every random comment you read.
Actually Hayao Miyazaki don’t really like his country either
One of only two "Raid Shadow Legends" ads I've actually sat through, just because your opening to it got me hooked.
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.
Honestly, yeah this is one of the main things that really bothers me.
@@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…….
@@kiarastaggs180 bruh what lol
Thoese kids wherent baptized so straight to Limbo for thoes fucks.
@@kiarastaggs180?
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.
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.
@@clueless_cutie also they teach about the Japanese training camps in the U.S during the war and the racist propaganda against them
@@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
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.
@@clueless_cutie That’s why people like Wendigoon are great for our field. He teaches people the things organized curriculum wanted to censor
I am usually a pretty cold, emotionless person, I dont react very much to horror, or disgust, I've seen the worst of live leak, the worst of reddit 50/50, but even a minor description of any of these events makes me feel bile creep up my throat...
you should seek therapy.
Seriously
@@nikolasscheeksFor feeling empathy?
for watching gore@@mrtruman4339
@@mrtruman4339No for seeing the most foul things on reddit and live leak and feeling nothing.
i really appreciate how Wendi takes the time at the end to remind and reassure everyone that “hey, not everyone is evil, actually a lot of people are really un-evil” (and then proceeds to brag on his wife which is adorable)
congratulations Dr. Kayla!! 🎉