Unit 731: He Watched His Own Funeral. Nuremberg Hanged Men For Less.
In 1945, a Japanese general staged his own funeral — and disappeared with a million dollars in cash. The evidence against him was worse than anything presented at Nuremberg. The body count was higher. The documentation was more detailed.He was never prosecuted.This is the story of Shirō Ishii, commander of Unit 731 — Imperial Japan's secret biological warfare program — and the classified deal that kept his name out of the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal while Nazi doctors were being hanged in Germany.What American investigators found in Manchuria. What Washington decided to do with it. And what the men who came home from the Pacific were ordered never to say.The files stayed classified for decades. Most of the men who were ordered to stay silent are gone now.This is what they couldn't tell you.If your father or grandfather served in the Pacific — leave their story in the comments. Those stories belong in the record.
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