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Viewing Guide:
The Precursor: 6:27 https://youtu.be/18Xe9HqW8Q4?t=387
The Precedent: 15:50 https://youtu.be/18Xe9HqW8Q4?t=949
Par for the Course: 34:11 https://youtu.be/18Xe9HqW8Q4?t=2051
The Doolittle Raids: 37:48 https://youtu.be/18Xe9HqW8Q4?t=2268
The Catastrophic Response: 42:57 https://youtu.be/18Xe9HqW8Q4?t=2577
The Rampant War Crimes Outside of the Massacres: 45:48 https://youtu.be/18Xe9HqW8Q4?t=2746
What Happened to the POWs: 50:34 https://youtu.be/18Xe9HqW8Q4?t=3034
Unit 731 and Others Like It: 58:13 https://youtu.be/18Xe9HqW8Q4?t=3493
The Totals: 1:10:04 https://youtu.be/18Xe9HqW8Q4?t=4204
But MOTHER OF GOD- WHY?!? 1:13:31 https://youtu.be/18Xe9HqW8Q4?t=4411
A Genuine Clusterfuck: 1:17:21 https://youtu.be/18Xe9HqW8Q4?t=4641
The Beatings will Continue Until Moral Improves: 1:23:16 https://youtu.be/18Xe9HqW8Q4?t=4996
The Troublesome Contrast: 1:27:58 https://youtu.be/18Xe9HqW8Q4?t=5278
The Distinction- What Do YOU Think? 1:35:23 https://youtu.be/18Xe9HqW8Q4?t=5723
How Did Unit 731 Justify Their Acts to Themselves? 1:37:50 https://youtu.be/18Xe9HqW8Q4?t=5870
The Surrender: 1:44:15 https://youtu.be/18Xe9HqW8Q4?t=6255
The Aftermath: 1:47:42 https://youtu.be/18Xe9HqW8Q4?t=6462
Who’s to Blame? 1:52:34 https://youtu.be/18Xe9HqW8Q4?t=6754
Why Did Unit 731 Officials Get Off Scot-Free? https://youtu.be/18Xe9HqW8Q4?t=7183
Bonus Fact: 2:06:16 https://youtu.be/18Xe9HqW8Q4?t=7576
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2 hours? Is this a glitch ?!
It never starts with concentration camps.
Holy cow two hours.
Christ 😢
Well the public education system needs a redo bc I never once heard of any of this…..
Thanks to whole team for having balls to make this and publish it. After this story, some prisons is 3 star hotel in comparison.
Wow, Simon is actually not his China bashing self with this video.
Actually talking about the Namking Massacre this time.
just wow………. ☕ tifo
We have a current holocaust happening: abortion.
I will always always always adamantly believe the Japanese were worse than the Germans in WW2. I'm not at all saying that the Germans were saints because they also commited horrible atrocities but nothing to this extent. At least German children are taught about the history of the Holocaust in their schools and understand the genocide their people perpetrated.
History no matter how gruesome or cruel must be taught after all we owe it to the memories of the victims! After the past itself exist to be learned from not shunned
Japan got off because of land strategic area also we bombed them twice, we did a “blind eye” trade to implant our bases their to have some control over the pacific as well as keeping a eye over Japan so they wouldn’t become a “Rising Sun” ever again, I think the US knew what they were doing in terms of “What If’s” because if they were to take the emperor to trial, we would have have to go to war with them years later!
Your a Trekkey? 😮
I wonder if this video will cover the Soviet soldiers murdering, robbing, and raping holocaust victims in the concentration camps they came across…
LeMay probably would have been prosecuted b e cause of the foreboding of Tokyo. That killed an estimated 100,000 or more Japanese
How the HELL does this have so few views! I think this is the best TIFO episode they've ever produced. I guess most aren't subbed to Simon's other channels and don't go for the longer format.
Do u sleep?
Wonderfull and comprihecive. Thank you for the work and the presentation
Told y'all, those bombs were completely justified.
Reminds me of the Belgian genocide of the Congolese. Conservative estimates have the death toll at 10 million, with some estimates as high as 25 million, yet a significant portion of people have never heard about it. Wonder why that might be 🤔
A rat will do alot of dirty disgusting things…but only humans are capable of something this horrible
obviously Japan has entered a phase of economic stagnation and demystification. I've seen some horrors about samurai lately with bushido and all and how they treated the lower castes of Japanese society. we really hope for a liberation of the Japanese people away from the neo-feudalism that characterizes modern Japan.
Gods….I…I don't know how you made it through this.
This is an amazing source of content. Nice work, Simon and Team! Thank you for your hard work and dedication despite being demonetized.
I have to say I'm genuinely impressed on this one. Not going to get the kind of views it should but it's a great cliffs notes on the topic. Two hours is absolutely a Cliffs Notes on the topic.
Great video. Very informative, well researched.
"They would use flamethrowers on people just to see what they did"
That is some small head move right there
Appreciated
You keep doing this, I'm in Europe, you can't buy from the box people.
There's a wonderful history of The Conflict from the Japanese perspective. Heavy going, but it does kind of explain the culture that allows things like the Rape of Nanking.
Any nation that goes to war, is morally bankrupt.
Out of fucks to give, it's great being old sometimes. A nice quiet cell, with little distractions, sounds good in your late sixties.
If you'd like to read more and with survivor stories, I cannot recommend the book "The ₹@pe of Nanking" by Iris Chang enough. It's considered the premier book on the subject.
Chang was the child of Chinese American immigrants and her grandparents had escaped the massacre. She is essentially the reason people in the West came to understand fully what happened.
She grew up hearing stories from her family about it, but when she later tried to understand more about it—there were no books about it. Not mentioned, even on the side, in books about WWII Japan. It wasn't even discussed in academic books.
She spent most of her adult life tirelessly researching it and tracking down survivors to get their stories. She toured and taught about it. It was her life's work and took a lot out of her. She was deeply disturbed about how it was so little known and survivors not helped, or even just recognized as victims by the Japanese government. Unfortunately, she took her own life at 36. There is a statue of her in Nanjing.
In My opinion i believe that Emperor Showa, Prince Asaka and the scientists of Unit 731 should have been put on trial for their crimes. They did it with Nazi's and so it should've been done with the Japanese higher ups. While yes the research was invaluable, allowing such individuals a "free pass" and not giving the people of China, Korea and south pacific nations the justice they craved as left relations between some of the countries bitter to this day. To put it this way, they still hunt for the very few surviving members of the SS to stand trial but no one went hunting for the scientists.
Thank you Simon and the team for doing this video. It was interesting and informative.
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This video is really loud
This a hard to listen to but compelling video. Thank you for making this history video for all to see.
I add one comment. Truman ordered the use of the nuclear bomb. The President is commander in chief of the armed forces. Failure to obey him would be a military coup.
If puppies threaded the possibility or the human race…. well you what would happen.
Just south of Hiroshima city, by way of a wonderful ferry ride. Is a small island, wonderfully known as "rabbit island" in English. Today, it is home to thousands of rabbits that are fed by droves of tourists, both Japanese and foreign. Many may never learn they it was home to a chemical weapons lab that was abandoned just before the surrender. The rabbits were released onto the island, expecting they'd starve to death in a few weeks.
They will pay, all who escaped from justice will pay, and when I stand before them, as they beg and squirm on the ground in pain, ill laugh.
I had to turn this one off. It was Pavlov that pushed me past my tipping point.
jesus Wepping christ!!! I had to stop watching this! I love Simon Whistler but I am so fucking ANGRY!!!!!! 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡