In 1943, the Nazis looted $50 million in gold from the Jewish community in Djerba, Tunisia; The team tracks the loot to a dive site off Corsica, a pawnshop in Germany to the family of an escaped Nazi in South America.

In 1941, Nazi armies capture the palace of Catherine the Great and steal the contents of her legendary Amber Room; four years later, Soviet armies capture Berlin and loot thousands of art treasures which disappear behind the Iron Curtain.