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The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin

The murder of the Israeli prime minister in 1995; Germany's "Occupation Babies"; nude theatre in London and New York.

In 1995, the Israeli prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, was murdered at a peace rally in Tel Aviv. We hear how his death scuppered hopes of peace in the Middle East. Plus, the racism endured by children born to black American soldiers and German mothers after World War Two, the rebuilding of Dresden's most famous church, and nude theatre in London and New York.

PHOTO: Yitzhak Rabin in 1993 (Getty Images)

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Tue 10 Nov 202000:06GMT
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