"Once Infected, Death Was Certain": Inside Japan's Secret Death Lab | Inside Unit 731 - Part 1

Episode 1 reveals Japan’s wartime biological weapons programme, Unit 731. Through rare survivor testimony and the account of Hideo Shimizu, one of the last living witnesses from the unit, it exposes a hidden world of human experiments carried out in the name of science. Recruited as a teenager in the final months of WWII, Shimizu breaks decades of silence to describe what he witnessed inside the unit’s vast complex in Harbin, China, where prisoners became test subjects in lethal experiments.

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