Jocko Podcast 133 - Unit 731

[mynewunit]

133: FACE HISTORY SO YOU CAN LEARN FROM IT. THE HORRORS OF UNIT 731.

Podcast 133 Page

0:00:00 – Opening: Testimony Unit 731, by Hal Gold.

0:11:24 – Unit 731, By Pete Williams.

0:13:00 - Lavished life for Japanese workers while Japan starves.
0:14:10 - Problems and solutions. Weapons. Plague. Pleas.
0:18:00 - Cruelty Begins: Mean to Rats. Feed Fleas.
0:20:00 - Human Testing
0:23:20 - Lowering Standard for Subjects
0:24:20 - Torture Manual
0:27:30 - Human Testing. "Maruta"s - Logs of wood. Dehumanization. Numbers
0:31:00 - Keep Good people from taking action
0:37:00 - Frostbite / Chemicals
0:40:00 - Malnutrition
0:43:00 - Surgeries and Other Tests
0:47:00 - Total of some 3000
0:48:00 - Moodin Prison Camp
0:56:00 - Freedom - Revenge?
0:57:00 - The war isn't over
1:00:00 - Cover your tracks
1:07:00 - Cold War
1:20:00 - Protected
1:26:00 - Testimony
1:28:00 - Emperor
1:40:00 - Nothing more stupid and and fearful than War
1:40:30 - Except there is one thing worse

1:40:33 – Final thoughts and take-aways.

1:44:39 – Support.

2:14:00 - Biggest rock on the bottom of the water story

[JH]

I have not read the book or listened to your podcast. Please give your listeners some foreshadowing about what they will hear.

[mynewunit]

Unit 731 was a part of the Japanese army that was developing chemical and biological weapons. They are specifically known for experimenting on human beings. This specific episode focuses on the dehumanization of others, so you know what signs to look for. Also a lot of attention is paid to those who acknowledged what they were doing was wrong but didn't try to stop it.    Wikipedia entry on Unit 731
This is another peering into the darkness to see what humans are capable of and all the reasons people don't do the right thing.
And for something lighter, there is the Warrior kid podcast.

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