Unit 731

The Forgotten Asian Auschwitz

By: Derek Pua, Danielle Dybbro, Alistair Rogers

Narrated by: Cathi Colas

"Unit 731: The Forgotten Asian Auschwitz, by Derek Pua, is not for the faint of heart. It is, however, for anyone wanting to more clearly understand the extent of Imperial Japanese war crimes. This brief, dispassionate, and factual book outlines the creation and development of Unit 731, an organization that employed thousands of Japanese scientists who conducted nightmarish experiments on an untold number of human guinea pigs, all in the name of medical research.

"Even if one cannot stomach the details included in Unit 731: The Forgotten Asian Auschwitz, a basic knowledge of these atrocities should be more widely known, if only in the hope that history will never repeat itself in this horrific manner." (Kathryn Atwood, author, kathrynatwood.com)

The Japanese invasion of China during the Second Sino-Japanese war has left a strong legacy of hate and disgust among many Chinese today. Much of the atrocities committed by the Japanese are now known to most historians. By far, the most despicable and forgotten act against humanity committed by the Imperial Japanese government was its covert biochemical weapons program. Euphemistically labelled as the "Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department" of the Imperial Japanese Army, the Japanese conducted a wide range of cruel and inhumane experiments on prisoners who were often innocent.

Under the leadership of Dr. Shiro Isshi, the department subjected three thousand to 250 thousand innocent men, women, and children to cruel experiments and medical procedures that were carried out by the brightest medical students and staff that Imperial Japan had to offer. In a bid to develop its own germ warfare capability, the government of Imperial Japan resorted to incredibly deprived and inhumane methods of experimentation, like infecting prisoners with virulent strains of anthrax, plague, cholera, and other diseases. These prisoners were often subject to excruciating vivisections without the use of anesthesia in order to observe the real-time effects of these deadly diseases.

In this edition, we expanded on the background info of Unit 731 and expanded on the findings of the remains of Unit 731.

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Very basic telling of a complex moment

This is more of a quick summary of the events that occurred and not a detailed informative book

Very good speaker but story is very short

Very interesting but unfortunately too short. Also The transition between chapters is not very smooth.

Shocking

I was extremely disturbed by the atrocities committed by the Japanese in WWII. I was quite disappointed to understand that the US was part of the cover up of this information. Very informative book.

You should know.

We need to be reminded of what war looks like, of the inhuman calculus that war forces us into tallying, of how necessity the unrighteous becomes so difficult to see when the temperature is turned up. Who do you think is trying to turn your temperature up?

Horrifying

A brutal look at a dismaying part Japanese evil during WWII. We all must never turn away from such evils however grotesque--lest we think ourselves above such evil. We must recognize that we too are capable of such dark sins. Indeed, our own government is complicit in preventing justice being satisfied.

This is necessary and more than this, especially for our young people to understand the past, that we might not dare to repeat such horrors...