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 the mysterious death of

Mozambique's President Somora Michelle.

Well my mission was to try to establish whether or not that this was in fact an assassination rather than an accident.

Plus, a survivor of the Moscow theatre siege.

People seem to turn to stone in shock.

Just imagine a group captured a thousand people with great ease.

And inside the Cuban missile crisis.

I remember leaving the president's office in the White House.

It was a beautiful fall evening in Washington.

And it sounds melodramatic for me to say this,

but I thought I might never live to see another Saturday night.

That's all coming up later in the podcast but we begin on the streets of London in the

years after the end of the Second World War.

Britain and the Allies had spent six long years

and an enormous amount of blood and treasure

in the defeat of fascism in Europe.

The horrors of the Nazi concentration camps and the extermination camps were fresh in the memory

and yet even in this environment a strand of British fascism

re-emerged as a political movement in the late 1940s.

But this time, with the experience of what Europe had just been through,

these British fascists were confronted by a group of predominantly Jewish ex-servicemen and volunteers.

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