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

history as told by the people who were there. This week Germany's occupation babies

fathered by Black GIs after the Second World War. When I was a child people

would scratch my face with a scrubbing brush to show other

children that it wasn't chocolate on my face I just wanted to be white.

Plus rebuilding Dresden's most famous church the conference that shaped the struggle for independence

in Africa.

I was seeing something I had not thought of before the possibility of a free continent and remember all of Africa still belonged to the white people.

And O-Cal-Cutter, the nude theatrical review that wowed audiences in London and New York.

The major thing of course that we always worry about is what kind of bodies we've got.

That's when I became the thinnest I've ever become because you worry about being overweight.

That's all coming up later in the podcast. because you worry about being overweight.

That's all coming up later in the podcast, but we begin this week by going back a quarter

of a century to a moment which shook the Middle East and set back the prospects of peace in the

region for decades. In November 1995, just as hope of progress

between Israel and the Palestinians appeared to be taking hold, the Israeli Prime Minister

Yitzak Rabin was assassinated.

He was the man who'd agreed the Oslo peace accords and had shaken hands with the PLO leader

Yasser Arafat on the White House lawn.

Louis Hidalgo takes us through the events of the assassination

in the company of someone who was there.

November the 4th 1995 and in Central Tel Aviv a huge crowd has gathered at a peace rally called by Israel's

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