Film by Doug Ross

Black Hearts (2021)

WWII Allied soldiers and Chinese laborers are imprisoned and tortured by Japanese captors in occupied China.

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WWII Allied soldiers and Chinese laborers are imprisoned and tortured by Japanese captors in occupied China.

Instead of the Americans joining forces with the Soviets to properly search the ruins of the death factories destroyed by the Japanese, the price for the knowledge of BW was too alluring for both sides, especially when the pressure brought by the Cold War continued to separate the two countries. It is apparent, though, that the Soviet Union was quite eager to communicate and made multiple suggestions on the topic, and it outlines a theory that it was the United States first lingered over the information and further used the fear of Soviets to entitle its sole acquisition of the BW information.
What is Unit 731?
Unit 731 was created in 1936 by the authorization of Emperor Hirohito in Japanese-occupied Manchuria with the aim of developing biological weapons. It was led by Ishii Shiro and had a partner unit, Unit 100. Unit 731 was supported by Japanese universities and medical schools which supplied doctors and research staff. Organized under the alias of The Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department of the Kwantung Army, Unit 731 operated as a covert chemical and bacteriological warfare research and development unit, conducting and responsible for some of the most atrocious war crimes of imperial Japan.
According to several former workers of Unit 731 and Unit 100, the laboratories were constructed for the purpose of manufacturing bacteriological weapons, which the Japanese Army would use against namely the Soviet Union, Mongolia, and China. While the units were not created with the sole purpose of preparing Japan for war against the USSR, there is evidence that proves the expected war was one of the major motivations.
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Unit 731 Building, Pingfang, China
On August 9, 1945 the Soviet Union officially declared war on Japan, and the Red Army moved into Japanese-occupied Manchuria. In response to the Soviets’ declaration of war, the Japanese government in Tokyo ordered that all the research facilities in Manchuria be destroyed to erase all incriminating material. Unit 100, located just south of Changchun, and Unit 731, located in the cluster of villages known as Ping Fan, had carried out some of Japan’s most horrific war crimes during World War Two.
Unlike Nazi Germany's atrocities in WW2, Japan’s heinous wartime atrocities are not well discussed in the mainstream and even intentionally hidden to public. Japan's atrocities in WW2 included factories where various diseases were tested on human captives, as well as field tests on Soviet Union and Chinese civilians. Japan aspired to develop effective tools for biological warfare, which was prohibited after WWI. Using human captives, the medically trained Japanese scientists gathered data on progression of the diseases until the “human guinea pigs” died.
Keeping the information secret, the United States secured this data with a price tag, i.e., not prosecuting those responsible for the operations, such as Emperor Hirohito. The Soviet Union later joined in hiding information, since the secrets of successful biological warfare provided both superpowers massive new weapons of destruction.

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