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Hello and welcome to the Witness History Podcast here on the BBC World Service.

I'm Mike Lanchin and today we're going back to the summer of 1986 when a group of young German activists was

kidnapped by right-wing rebels in Nicaragua.

The rebels known as Contras were being trained and funded by the US government

and often targeted foreigners working for Nicaragua's left-wing Sandinista government.

I've been hearing from two of the hostages about their ordeal.

In the mid-1980,

groups of enthusiastic foreign volunteers were flocking to Nicaragua from Europe,

the US and other parts of Latin America.

They were mostly young people fired up by the left-wing Sandinista

Revolutionaries who toppled the country's US-backed dictatorship.

In Nicaragua they started to change society that was interesting and then by a revolution that was

thrilling. I wanted desperately to see to feel it. I was very hopeful in that years and changing the whole world.

For youngsters like Dominic Deal and Rheingard Zimmer both from Germany, Nicaragua's fledgling revolution

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