[0681] Heroes
 

[0681] Heroes

  • Sandra: We all know the worst mass murderers in history. But far too few people know the heroes who saved the most lives.
  • Caption: Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physician at the Vienna General Hospital, discovered in 1847 that the incidence of childbed fever could be drastically cut by the use of diligent hand disinfection.
  • Physician: A gentleman’s hands are never dirty!
  • Ignaz Semmelweis: I beg to differ.
  • Caption: During the Massacre of Nanking in 1938, German businessman John Rabe established safety zones that sheltered over 200,000 Chinese citizens from the Japanese army.
  • John Rabe: Would you let go for a moment? I need to go to the bathroom.
  • Caption: Stanislav Petrov, lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defense Forces, may have prevented a nuclear war in 1983 when he correctly identified the launch of five American nuclear missiles as a false alarm of the Soviet’s early warning system.
  • Stanislav Petrov: No, no! These aren’t nuclear missiles! These are just weather balloons!
  • Yury Votintsev: Hmm…
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