History - Unit 731: Nightmare in Manchuria

Features the terrible story behind WWII Unit 731, a japanese military base located in the puppet state of Manchuria, China. In 1931, Japans military takeover takeover of the northern Chinese province of Manchuria signalled the beginning of a march toward world domination. But, to truly conquer the planet, Japan knew it must have an enormous bio-chemical weapons arsenal. To develop and test such weapons, Japan built a number of top secret research facilities in China, the largest of which was called Unit 731. Between 1932 and the end of World War Two in 1945, many thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians died as test subjects at the hands of Unit 731s leader, Shiro Ishii, and his research staff. Innocent men, women and children were exposed to deadly diseases, below-freezing temperatures and even direct bomb blasts. None of the test victims lived to tell the details of their horrors at the hands of the Japanese scientists, and none of these scientists ever spent a day in prison for their crimes against humanity.