From 2022, Jon Wertheim's story on the Ritchie Boys, the secret U.S. unit bolstered by German-born Jews who helped the Allies beat Hitler. From 2019, Wertheim's tale of how a Japanese medic and American soldier became linked by World War II's Battle of Attu. From 2017, Anderson Cooper's interview with Adolfo Kaminsky, a WWII-era forger who saved lives, one fake document at a time. From 1994, Morley Safer's look back at his story on the Enigma machine and how the allies broke a secret German code during World War II. From 2014, Cooper's story on Palau, a Pacific island nation that saw some of the fiercest fighting of the war. From 2017, Sharyn Alfonsi's talk with Ben Skardon, a survivor of the Bataan Death March. From 1974, Safer's story on Hiroshima and the atomic bomb. From 2006, Scott Pelley's look at Hitler's secret archive. From 2009, Bob Simon’s report on how a young Jewish boy survived the Holocaust by becoming the mascot of a Nazi army unit. From 2014, Simon’s profile of Nicholas Winton, a British stockbroker who saved nearly 700 children from Nazi persecution. From 2021, Lesley Stahl's report on Nuremberg prosecutor Ben Ferencz. And from 2022, Stahl's story on how artificial intelligence is preserving our ability to converse with Holocaust survivors even after they die.

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0:00 Intro
0:11 The Ritchie Boys (Part 1)
14:14 The Ritchie Boys (Part 2)
26:45 The Ritchie Boys (Part 3)
40:54 Attu
54:29 The Forger
1:07:29 Ultra Secret
1:21:37 A Forgotten Corner of Hell
1:35:03 A Survivor's March
1:49:32 Hiroshima
2:05:07 Hitler's Secret Archive
2:17:59 The Mascot
2:29:04 Saving the Children
2:44:28 The Nuremberg Prosecutor
2:57:48 Talking to the Past (Part 1)
3:11:03 Talking to the Past (Part 2)