Hello and welcome to the History Hour podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson

the past brought to life by those who were there.

This week from Brazil the repression of left-wing activists under military rule in the 1970s.

Later, witnesses who were at the army barracks where my father was being held

confirmed that he was being tortured in a room next to where my mother and sister were and that he died that night.

Also the American embassy hostage crisis in Tehran.

We have done nothing for which any American need apologize.

The actions of Iranian leaders and the radicals

who invaded our embassy were completely unjustified.

And from after the Second World War,

Britain's bid to keep the war wounded moving.

Good news for the disabled.

On order by the Ministry of Pensions are 2,000 luxury in-believe carriages,

the last word in comfort and convenience,

designed to make shopping and visiting easier.

That's all coming up later in the podcast, but it's in Brazil that we start this week.

This, however, is a strange story from the years immediately after the end of the Second World War.

By that time time there were many

thousand Japanese immigrants living in Brazil. Among that group, inter-neissine tension

erupted on the news of the Japanese surrender in 1945.

And it led to a wave of murders being committed by a group of Japanese immigrants who believed

that reports of the surrender were fake.

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