Comfort Women of WW2
How were women forced into wartime abuse?
4.7 (34)
51 mins
Discover the unsettling history of the Comfort women during WWII. Explore how thousands of women, mainly from Korea, China, and other parts of Asia, were forced into military brothels, and how their experiences remain a deeply painful and contested issue in history.
Ep 1:
The Promise That Became a Prison
Lured by lies of factory jobs, young Korean girls are trafficked into a brutal, systemized nightmare of sexual slavery—where survival itself becomes an act of defiance against an unimaginable machine.
Ep 2:
Two Fronts, One Silence: Europe's Hidden War
As the Third Reich falls, mass rape becomes a weapon of vengeance across Europe—exposing uncomfortable truths about Allied "liberators" and the silenced children born from this hidden atrocity.
Ep 3:
Mercy, Shame, and the Long Road Home
Japanese POWs brace for American cruelty but find unexpected mercy, while liberated Korean comfort women return home only to face a crueler captivity—fifty years of enforced silence and shame.
Ep 4:
Fifty Years of Silence Broken
After decades of silence, survivors finally speak their truth aloud—igniting a global reckoning, weekly protests, and a fierce demand for justice that money alone could never satisfy.
Discussions (5)
Willie
Level 5 · 4 mo agoThe 190,000 figure for US assaults is accurate.
Todd
Level 9 · 4 mo agoThat 190k figure is real.
Misty
Level 4 · 4 mo agoUgh. Having two daughters makes listening to this so painful. Those girls were only fourteen. To survive that hell just to be shamed into silence by their own community for fifty years makes my blood boil.
