BONUS 13 - Unit 731: Japan's Evil Experiments

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Dan Cummins

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🗓️ 24 November 2017

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

What is Unit 731? It was one of Japan's WWII era medical research centers where doctors performed horrific experiments on prisoners, gruesomely torturing and killing human lab rats in order to improve biological, gas, chemical, and other weapons. Prisoners were infected with the bubonic plague, syphilis, cholera, and other diseases. Prisoners were raped, beaten, frozen, and even trapped in pressurized chambers where they bled out from their pores. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” - George Santayana Let us never repeat what happened in Unit 731. A dark bonus topic this Thanksgiving week. Be thankful you weren't a part of this experiment. Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG, @timesuckpodcast on Twitter, and www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast Email Jesse Dobner for all your editing needs! [email protected] Want to donate to a great organization helping the Lakota people of the Pine Ridge American Indian reservation? Go here!

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0:00.0	Those who failed to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
0:06.4	Most of the internet, and most of the world seems to believe that Sir Winston Churchill
0:10.5	came up with that famous quote, he did not.
0:13.4	The phrase was actually, those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, and
0:18.3	it was 20th century Spanish American philosopher George Santillana who wrote it and said it.
0:24.0	The quote also shows up as, the one who does not remember history is bound to live through
0:28.3	it again, on a plaque that has been translated from Polish to English at the Oswich concentration
0:33.8	camp in Poland, and as those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it on a
0:39.7	veteran's memorial plaque in Rome, Texas.
0:42.4	Pretty ironic that a quote about not remembering the past is chronically misattributed and
0:47.0	misquoted.
0:48.0	Good example of how fragile the past and our memory of it truly is.
0:52.3	It's so easy to forget, so easy to only half remember, so easy to intentionally purge
0:57.6	the memories of events and deeds that don't add evidence to the narrative that we're a
1:01.6	good person, that we don't commit horrible acts, or condone them, or enable them by not
1:08.0	doing anything to stop them.
1:10.6	Today we take a deep dive into a subject, Japan's government, and its people tried so very
1:16.0	hard to forget, a horrific tragedy that nearly was buried and forgotten.
1:20.8	Eyewitnesses were killed, documentation burned, acknowledgement, and admittance of wrongdoing
1:25.0	refused.
1:25.9	Japan, who itself had been the victim of unspeakable World War II tragedy, with the atomic
1:31.3	bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, amongst other atrocities, had been committing savage
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