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-[dramatic music playing]
-[forest animals call]
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[owl hooting]
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[gunshot]
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[classical music playing]
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[Matschke] The Rohwedder murder
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really was the perfect crime.
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The way it was executed…
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And now,
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30 years later, the whole thing
still hasn't been solved yet.
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One must, of course, be careful
not to lapse into any form of admiration.
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This was planned with murderous
and cold-blooded precision.
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Some details just don't fit in
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with this being planned
so coldly and professionally:
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location, timing, escape options.
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-And then such amateurish things
-[camera shutter clicks]
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like leaving bullet casings behind,
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leaving cigarette butts behind,
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leaving a towel.
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A hair was found on the towel,
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but they didn't know what it was
at the time.
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From this, one might well conclude
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that this was maybe meant to be
a red herring.
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[Wagner] This was either
a very well-prepared murder
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with excellent forensic support,
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as if the crime scene cleaners
came in right behind the shooter.
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It's almost like bringing
your ballistics expert,
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your coroner along to the crime scene
to try to clean the whole scene.
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STATE CRIMINAL POLICE OFFICE
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HEAD OF THE STATE SECURITY UNIT
BERND WAGNER
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It sure seems like this
if you find nothing, of course.
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So either a highly professional culprit
or group of culprits was responsible,
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or it was a big-scale orchestration.
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[sirens wail]
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GERMANY
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[upbeat theme music playing]
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A NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES
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[Hitler] The German Reich…
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[Ulbricht] Nobody has any intention
of building a wall.
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[reporter] West and East Germany,
a divided nation.
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♪ Unity and justice and freedom… ♪
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Red Army Faction.
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…insane attacks by barbaric terrorists.
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♪ …Fatherland ♪
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♪ Risen from ruins ♪
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[Reagan] Tear down this wall.
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Our fatherland, reunited.
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♪ Flourish, German fatherland ♪
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VICTIM
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[Bresser] Detlev Karsten Rohwedder,
a man who has huge plans
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as head of the powerful
and controversial Treuhand.
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To get to know him better,
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our "complete the sentence" game
might come in handy.
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The first half sentence is:
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Those who want to save jobs
at any price are…
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…more likely to destroy them
than to create new ones.
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In business, cruelty…
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…is essential.
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But it should be buffered a bit
so it doesn't hurt too much.
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For me, Helmut Kohl's pace
towards German Unity is…
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…astonishing, but right.
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OCTOBER 3, 1990
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[rock music playing]
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BERLIN
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[crowd cheers]
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[cheering continues]
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"A dream has become reality,"
says the Chancellor of now all Germans.
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At midnight, German Unity
has come into effect.
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Hundreds of thousands
celebrate the Reunification in Berlin.
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6 MONTHS
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UNTIL THE MURDER
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[Ludewig] I met Rohwedder on the eve
of Reunification at the Reichstag.
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FEDERAL CHANCELLERY, STATE SECRETARY
JOHANNES LUDEWIG
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I talked to him
about how he views the future, and…
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He said, "It's difficult, no doubt,
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but you know, Mr. Ludewig,
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I've visited the companies,
I talked to the people there.
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I'm convinced
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there is enough substance there
to make it all work out.
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We'll get this done," he said.
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"Goodbye." And then he disappeared
into the crowd.
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That was about an hour,
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half an hour before midnight,
I remember it clearly.
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[firework whistles]
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[narrator] Young athletes from both parts
of the formerly divided Berlin
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hoist the federal German flag
in front of the Reichstag.
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The bell of freedom rings
in a new era of German history.
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[Luft] There wasn't just one mood
across all of the GDR.
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[crowd cheers]
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Some people said,
"We want the Reunification."
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And others said, "We didn't build
this country for 40 years…
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MINISTER FOR ECONOMIC AFFAIRS GDR
CHRISTA LUFT
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…just for it to go down the drain
and for others to usurp it."
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♪ …for the German fatherland ♪
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[Over] What alarmed me…
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POLITICIAN
FREKE OVER
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…was this great belief in Helmut Kohl,
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in his promises of flourishing landscapes
and unity.
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I always thought, "Are you crazy?
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Now it's your chance
to walk a different path."
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Until then we had a hope
to embark on a "Third Path"
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between GDR-type socialism
and West German capitalism.
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But at that time, it was a country
with a euphoria for capitalism.
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♪ Unity and justice and freedom
For the German fatherland ♪
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Dear fellow citizens,
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in a few hours, a dream becomes reality.
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After more than 40 bitter years
of division,
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Germany, our fatherland, is reunited.
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As a result
of our social market economy politics,
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in a few years from now, the former
East German states of Brandenburg,
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Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,
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Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt,
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and Thuringia will have been turned
into flourishing landscapes.
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[siren wails]
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[Over] On October 3rd,
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there was also a huge protest
called "Germany, shut up"
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against Reunification
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with 20 to 30,000 participants.
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And among them
a lot of West Berlin police,
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who let loose for the first time
in East Berlin.
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[protesters clamor]
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[whistling, cheering]
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[techno music playing]
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[screaming]
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[cheering, shouting]
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[siren wails]
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[Flake] Practically the worst-case
scenario for me was Reunification.
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I liked the reforms. The fall
of the Berlin Wall wasn't necessary…
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KEYBOARDIST RAMMSTEIN
FLAKE
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…but in the end
I thought it was a good thing, too.
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What really shocked me was
the Reunification.
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Suddenly, a country was thrust upon us
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that was not who we were
and did not want to be.
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I never wanted to be a citizen
of West Germany. For the love of God!
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I didn't like their society.
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I still don't.
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I don't like the way
a lot of stuff is being handled,
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ownership, real estate,
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how their laws were imposed on us,
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which we didn't want.
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[man on PA]
The department store is overcrowded.
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Please understand that admission
can only be granted in batches.
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Don't push, please.
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See how orderly the people up front
are standing in line.
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[reporter] Did things change for you?
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Yes, the future has become more uncertain.
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-Yeah.
-At work and all that.
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Everything happened way too fast.
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I don't really know
what you want to hear.
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You know exactly what problems
we are facing here anyway, don't you?
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[reporter] Can I ask what has changed
for you?
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The Treuhand continues
to destroy companies
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and push people into unemployment.
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Everything gets sold and yet
we are supposed to be happy? Really?
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[Waigel] You mustn't forget,
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there were reports
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that the GDR would be broke by 1991
at the latest.
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MINISTER OF FINANCE
THEO WAIGEL
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There was no market for the GDR's
automobile production anymore.
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For the huge ships built in Stralsund
and elsewhere,
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there was no market anymore.
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There was no point
in continuing a business
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if it couldn't sell its products anymore.
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There had to be a market,
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like we had in the West.
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[Scheunert] This contrast
between East and West…
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You could sense it so much
when politicians from Bonn came over.
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TREUHAND DIRECTOR
DETLEF SCHEUNERT
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That was like the Starship Enterprise
arriving.
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It was like a strange force arriving.
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One could sense they didn't feel right,
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they didn't know…
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They got anxious
whenever they entered East Germany.
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[Waigel] The peaceful atmosphere
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in the West, in the Ministry,
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the splashing of the fountain,
the polished floors, the silence…
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That was another country,
a different planetary system.
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In Berlin, when you arrived
at the Treuhand office in the morning,
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workers were already waiting with rods
to bang on your car roof.
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[woman with bullhorn] …and we stand here
in front of this building…
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[crowd whistles, cheers]
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TRUST AGENCY
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[Rohwedder] People seem to think
we are this dark, gloomy, powerful castle
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here at Berlin Alexanderplatz.
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And I'm very sorry about this.
It's a big misunderstanding.
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I have to work ridiculously hard
and live a dog's life, actually.
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I enter this office in the morning
when it's still dark outside
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and I leave at night when it's dark again,
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go back to my hotel,
do some more work,
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catch the last minutes of TV
and then go to bed.
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5 WEEKS
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UNTIL THE MURDER
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[Bresser] But Mr. Rohwedder,
most observers didn't expect things
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to end up so dramatic.
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Unemployment is skyrocketing:
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700,000 civil service jobs,
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400,000 in agriculture,
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550,000 in the metal
and electrical industries.
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I could continue.
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If there is no improvement
on the horizon soon,
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aren't you afraid
there might be another revolution
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-in former East Germany?
-Well…
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first of all, we only just drove
into the tunnel.
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DETLEV ROHWEDDER
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Now we have to drive
through the tunnel a little bit
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without getting scared,
and then the light will appear.
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TREUHAND VICE PRESIDENT
HERO BRAHMS
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I was worried
about the increasing pressure,
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but not about his composure.
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It was good, and he was so tough.
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He could take a hit, but also strike back.
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[Brahms] Politicians could hide perfectly
behind the Treuhand.
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And of course, he was an ideal scapegoat.
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If you read the papers back then,
the TV coverage,
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everyone was out on a rampage.
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PRESSURE ON TREUHAND IS GROWING
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The public pressure,
including the media's, was enormous.
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HARSH CRITICISTM OF TREUHAND
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SPIRAL INTO BANKRUPTCY
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[Brahms] The mood was aggressive.
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This had to have consequences
at some point.
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[interviewer] Where is
your personal pain threshold,
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the point you would say,
"I will no longer play a part in this?"
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I'm quite immune to pain.
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It's got to get really, really bad,
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unreasonable demands to a degree
that none of you would accept.
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Actually, you could say
everything here is unreasonable.
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Everything is disorganized and…
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dangerous and dramatic.
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[Waigel] Right before Christmas 1990,
Rohwedder came to me
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at the Ministry of Finance.
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He told me he wanted to quit.
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I begged him to stay.
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Helmut Kohl begged him to stay, too,
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and told him, "We need you."
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I tried…
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to convince him to stay.
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I still think of our talk back then.
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It's a vivid memory.
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I told Rohwedder's children,
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"Had I not beseeched your father to stay,
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he might still be alive today."
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I have to live with this thought, but…
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it was still the right thing to do
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to ask him, the best man for this job,
to continue
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in the interest
of this great cause for Germany.
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I guess all I can say is,
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it's crucial to let people know
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that the phase we're going through now…
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-[Bresser] Mr. Rohwedder.
-…will come to an end.
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KLAUS BRESSER
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If we have 40 or even 50% unemployment,
Mr. Rohwedder,
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we've never had such numbers in Germany,
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not even during the Great Depression
or right before Hitler seized power.
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I worry
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that the pressure on you and the Treuhand
will grow intense.
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6 DAYS
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UNTIL THE MURDER
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[reporter] The traditional Monday protests
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have again begun to dominate
the political landscape in East Germany.
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Tens of thousands gathered again today
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to call attention to the bad
economic situation in East Germany.
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MONDAY DEMONSTRATIONS
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[crowd chants]
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[reporter] Apparently
100,000 people joined.
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Large numbers of police
from Bavaria and Hesse
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blocked access to government buildings.
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[Over] From March 1991,
I joined regularly.
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I took the evenings off
and joined the Monday protests, and…
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there was a lot of anger.
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There was…
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a lot of anger from those who were,
so to speak,
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the first that had been
thrown out of the door.
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[crowd shouts angrily]
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We say no to the Treuhand policy
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which makes a mockery
of the "Trust" in its name.
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We say no to a policy
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that sells off companies
without caring about the people.
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[crowd cheers and applause]
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[Over] Something was growing.
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In March, 1991, a new civil movement,
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maybe even a workers' movement grew
on the streets.
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[reporter] Shouts from Leipzig could be
heard loud and clear again today.
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Many banners demanded
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the resignation of Chancellor Kohl
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and called for re-elections.
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We are the people,
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and we demand re-elections!
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[crowd cheers and applause]
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[Karas] The Monday protests are coming
back to life.
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Dangerous social dynamite has accumulated,
that is glaringly obvious.
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Many former GDR citizens
are losing their jobs and their hope, too.
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[crowd chanting] Re-elections!
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[reporter] Chancellor Kohl called
re-election rumors absurd.
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KOHL
NO NEW ELECTIONS
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[reporter] Tonight they flocked
to the streets again
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despite the freezing cold.
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They want to continue, every Monday,
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until their demands are accepted.
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[Over] Things converged more and more,
and I think it frightened certain people.
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It caused the Kohl government
massive anxiety.
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Of course, the Treuhand was
also a lightning rod.
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If all that anger had been unleashed
in Bonn,
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I'm not sure if Bonn
would still exist today.
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[Kohl] We don't have any experience
in reuniting Germany.
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I hope that never again
will a German government
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have to prove experience in this field.
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Naturally, we have to make decisions
all the time,
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and we do make errors, myself included.
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Every day, tens of thousands
of unemployed protesters
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are out on the streets of the former GDR,
and it's still growing.
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Are we not getting
into an even more difficult situation?
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[ominous music playing]
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NIGHT OF THE MURDER
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[Wagner] Whoever the killers were,
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I think there could be
a larger connection.
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As a politically-thinking criminal
investigator, I always ask myself,
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who benefited from this? Or who benefits?
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[tense music playing]
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[Wagner] Several scenarios are plausible,
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including ones of a political nature.
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For example, this hypothesis
of a third RAF generation
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never really convinced me.
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I mean, it might be true,
but it doesn't have to be.
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Other perpetrators could have done it,
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but I would probably rule out the RAF.
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I never doubted it was the RAF.
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It was clear to me
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that they had the political responsibility
and that they committed this murder.
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I never had any doubt.
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OFFICE FOR THE PROTECTION
OF THE CONSTITUTION
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KRIMINALOBERRAT
KLAUS-DIETER MATSCHKE
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I never altered
my assessment of the murder.
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[Matschke] I'm convinced it was done
by former Stasi members
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and that this was a revenge killing.
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[Wagner] It could well have been connected
with the Stasi,
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to inspire the East German working class
to rise against the West.
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Finally, a third scenario
I was thinking about would be
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that the West orchestrated the murder
by hiring contract killers.
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[ominous music playing]
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[Wagner] I mean, files don't disappear
repeatedly without a reason.
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State interest, necessary secrecy,
protection of informants
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are reasons often used as excuses
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in order to prevent the public's ability
to check up on things.
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Of course, this makes you suspicious,
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this fact alone.
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[dramatic music playing]
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[Classen] I assert
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the Federal Criminal Police Office
and the Federal Prosecutor General…
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CRIME REPORTER
GÜNTHER CLASSEN
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…are much closer
to solving the Rohwedder crime
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than we are all led to believe.
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[Classen] I myself made several inquiries.
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[camera shutter clicks]
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I only received airy-fairy answers.
"We're investigating in all directions."
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[camera shutter clicks]
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[Classen] When someone speaks like this,
they are concealing something.
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They have a solution,
but don't want to tell
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because the solution
might reveal something
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that would shake this republic
to its very core.
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Now there's a lead.
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Investigators had found hairs
at the crime scene back then.
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Using new technology,
they have now found
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that one of them belongs
to alleged terrorist Wolfgang Grams.
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[Fundermann] Back then,
when the Rohwedder murder happened,
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we couldn't deal with hairs
that had been shed.
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Back then, DNA analysis
could only be done on hairs…
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FEDERAL CRIMINAL POLICE OFFICE
HEAD OF COMMUNICATIONS, WILLI FUNDERMANN
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…that had been pulled out and still had
roots and cell material attached.
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Running tests on so-called telogen hairs,
shed hairs without roots,
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was only possible much later.
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We then used this
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and were able to confirm
that was Grams' hair.
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[Wagner] Of course, it could be real hair,
Grams' hair.
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But did they really get there naturally
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or in some other way?
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These questions have never been answered.
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FEDERAL OFFICE FOR THE PROTECTION
OF THE CONSTITUTION
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CHIEF EVALUATOR
WINFRIED RIDDER
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If you want to regard the trace
of Grams' DNA as confirmation,
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then it's clear Grams was involved
in the Rohwedder murder.
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But how exactly, and at what point in time
he left behind his DNA, however,
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remains unanswered so far.
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But he was a leading figure back then.
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From 1990 until 1992,
I was Head of the State Security Unit,
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responsible for the former GDR territory.
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In spring 1991,
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I could have arrested Grams
and his associate.
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Back then, our office,
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the Counter-Terrorism Unit,
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had received intel from Thuringia
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that these two individuals
were hiding there.
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So I sent one of my staff to Thuringia
to investigate,
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and, depending on circumstances,
arrest them.
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He was sent away under some pretext.
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[telephone rings]
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I then had a call
with the Federal Criminal Police Office,
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in which I was told that they would
take care of this matter alone.
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We were not to intervene.
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[TV static]
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Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
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EXCHANGE OF SHOTS WITH RAF MEMBERS
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In a shooting
with two high-ranking RAF members
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this afternoon in the town of Bad Kleinen
in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,
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alleged terrorist Wolfgang Grams was shot.
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We had intel
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from the Office for the Protection
of the Constitution Rhineland-Palatinate,
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according to which they had managed
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to infiltrate the RAF command level.
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I immediately set up a special task force
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and instructed our operation team
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to close off the area
around the Bad Kleinen train station.
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[Ridder] Bad Kleinen was a glorious moment
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for the intelligence services.
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For the first time in 20 years,
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they had succeeded
in placing a human source
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into a terrorist organization.
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[telephone ringing]
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[Hofmeyer] We were on the phone
in my office
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at the Federal Criminal Police Office,
together with my deputy
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and the Federal Prosecutor General.
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On the speakerphone,
everyone could hear it,
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I get the info "mission completed.
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We have injured persons."
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The target…
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The target opened fire."
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A member of the special
Border Protection Unit 9
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also suffered fatal injuries.
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[Hofmeyer] Then we were told
our colleague died
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and that Grams was being taken away
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and had died, too.
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So, by around 8:00 p.m. that night,
it was clear to me
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that the mission had failed.
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[reporter] The circumstances
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surrounding alleged RAF terrorist Grams'
death on Sunday are still unclear.
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CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH UNSETTLED
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After the events in Bad Kleinen,
I had this feeling,
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and the whole affair seemed weird to me.
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I thought they knew
the location of Grams and his associates,
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and were willing to accept
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one or two people dying that day.
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[reporter] The circumstances
of the operation at Bad Kleinen station
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became even more confusing today.
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[reporter 2] At the site of the operation,
not all evidence has been secured yet.
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[reporter 3] It's still unclear
how many shots were even fired.
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[Hofmeyer] There we had our scandal.
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The next Sunday, the Spiegel magazine
came out and spoke about "the fatal shot".
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THE FATAL SHOT
TERRORIST HUNT GONE WRONG
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I knew this was now also
a public relations disaster.
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They were going for the kill.
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That Sunday, I visited
the Minister of the Interior,
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and he resigned.
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Then I started to have doubts myself
about what had happened that day.
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I doubted it myself.
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SEITERS
RESIGNATION
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Mr. Seiters took responsibility
for the mistakes
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and surprisingly resigned from office.
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[reporter] Federal Prosecutor General
von Stahl will be dismissed.
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After the series of mishaps
in the Grams case…
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[Ridder] I cannot recall any other case
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which caused eight or ten politicians
and high-level officials
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to be forced into retirement,
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uh, as a direct result
of a police operation.
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This was a declaration of bankruptcy
for the entire security establishment.
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GRAMS
INVESTIGATION
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Ten days after the Bad Kleinen operation,
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it remains unclear who used which weapon
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to shoot alleged RAF terrorist
Wolfgang Grams.
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[news anchor] After the autopsy
of alleged RAF terrorist Wolfgang Grams…
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REPORT OF FURTHER MISHAP
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…there were several mishaps,
the news magazine Spiegel reports,
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which hinder attempts
to clarify the circumstances of death.
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Grams' corpse
was allegedly thoroughly washed,
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during which blood residue was removed.
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[reporter] The investigators in Schwerin
are still missing important evidence
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to determine the cause of death.
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00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:23,280
It was really Murphy's Law
what happened in the whole investigation.
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00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:25,800
Um, just one example...
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Some evidence was sent
to Zurich police in Switzerland
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to demonstrate that we wanted
a completely objective investigation,
480
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:36,680
so we let the Swiss analyze Grams' jacket
for gunshot residue.
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00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:41,320
The result was Grams' jacket disappeared
in the Zurich institute,
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never to be found again.
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00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:47,800
So for someone
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who's skeptical
towards the police and the judiciary,
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it must have seemed
like something was being covered up,
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something just wasn't right.
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00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:07,040
[Hofmeyer] This mental programming
to commit suicide in hopeless situations
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was widespread among political figures.
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Why couldn't he have killed himself
with a gun?
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[Classen] I could call this
a cover-up crime,
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because, to this day,
the security authorities have been unable
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to answer any of the open questions
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or solve any of the unsolved murders,
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and also don't appear to be
overly interested in solving them anymore.
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So when I look at the Rohwedder case,
I'm not too far
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00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:47,520
from calling the Grams murder
497
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:51,440
a cover-up crime.
498
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:54,720
[man] The scary thing about this situation
499
00:31:54,800 --> 00:32:01,120
is that a lack of transparent information
or accurate information
500
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:02,960
created the impression
501
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:05,640
among the public
502
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:08,640
that there are dubious goings-on
in this state.
503
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:13,000
The Office for the Protection
of the Constitution kept intel from us?
504
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:16,160
I would almost vouch for that!
505
00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:18,800
I'm worried
506
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:22,840
that the security institutions
507
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:26,120
have developed a life of their own,
508
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:29,640
which may become a danger
to our democracy,
509
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:30,960
ladies and gentlemen.
510
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:32,920
[dramatic music playing]
511
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,000
[siren wails]
512
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:45,480
AMBULANCE
513
00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:57,720
[Scheunert] When Rohwedder got shot,
I really struggled with myself.
514
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:00,040
I thought…
515
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:05,480
"Jump on any plane, just leave Germany,
because there is going to be a civil war.
516
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:08,520
They will attack each other
and shoot each other's leaders."
517
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:10,840
It wasn't clear,
was this just the beginning?
518
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:13,520
No one knew what might happen next.
519
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:21,040
7 DAYS
520
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:24,560
AFTER THE MURDER
521
00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:27,120
Dear colleagues,
522
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:32,800
there were contradictory statements
in the media
523
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:35,720
regarding our protest today.
524
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:40,400
In fact, we did ponder
525
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:43,800
whether to call for this Monday protest.
526
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:50,400
[Over] Politicians exerted severe pressure
on this protest.
527
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:51,320
LEIPZIG OPERA
528
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:56,520
Someone officially declared, I'm not sure
if it was the Minister of the Interior
529
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:58,320
or Chancellor Kohl himself.
530
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:03,760
WHY DO YOU USE THE POISON OF ENVY
TO DEEPEN THE DIVISION OF GERMANY
531
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:10,160
END THE CYNICAL GAME
WITH THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE
532
00:34:10,240 --> 00:34:12,480
Then they had a minute's silence.
533
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:19,280
[man] We sympathize
with the family of the murder victim
534
00:34:20,240 --> 00:34:23,600
and remember Detlev Karsten Rohwedder
in silence.
535
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:27,680
[man in crowd] One minute's silence!
536
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:52,600
[crowd begins applauding]
537
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:09,520
[Over] The emerging workers'
civil movement
538
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:11,560
simply collapsed.
539
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:15,160
I believe that was our last protest.
540
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:19,920
[watch ticking]
541
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:28,880
[Wagner] It is quite conceivable
542
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:33,600
that there exist certain powerful forces
within Germany,
543
00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:37,080
a kind of deep state.
544
00:35:38,240 --> 00:35:42,360
Of course, this isn't done
by the State officially,
545
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:48,680
by certain people within
who have the ability to orchestrate.
546
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:52,880
So it could have been plotted by the West
547
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:55,080
to kill the Treuhand boss
548
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:58,920
in order to prove the point
that the Treuhand is doing the right thing
549
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:02,080
and, in turn,
undermine devotees of the East,
550
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:05,440
those who were anti-Treuhand.
551
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:08,600
To tell them, "See?
Your concept for society leads to death."
552
00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:18,360
Already next week it will be announced
who will follow in Rohwedder's footsteps
553
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:20,920
as the head of the Treuhand,
554
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,880
Minister of Finance Theo Waigel
told the press today.
555
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:25,480
BREUEL
NEW HEAD OF THE TREUHAND
556
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:28,920
The CDU politician Birgit Breuel
is the new Head of the Treuhand.
557
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:35,480
[Scheunert] Then Mrs. Breuel came in
558
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:40,480
and shifted the focus extremely
towards a market economy orientation.
559
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:44,880
Prior to that, we hadn't privatized much.
560
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:47,560
Because we had focused on restructuring,
not selling companies,
561
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:49,680
with Rohwedder leading this cause.
562
00:36:50,240 --> 00:36:52,360
And then came Breuel with her clear focus
563
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:54,800
on private ownership, privatization.
564
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:57,920
Then the Treuhand gathered pace.
565
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:03,040
[Breuel] Mr. Rohwedder was an entrepreneur
who committed himself wholeheartedly.
566
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:06,200
We will continue the work in his spirit.
567
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:07,480
We are determined.
568
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:10,640
This means privatize quickly.
569
00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:15,800
[Scheunert] Then Mrs. Breuel gave
a press conference.
570
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:18,720
By chance, Waigel was there that day,
but only by chance.
571
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:23,640
Just once did he visit the Treuhand
as Minister in charge.
572
00:37:23,720 --> 00:37:24,600
That says a lot.
573
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:26,600
Once.
574
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:32,120
And in that situation back then,
he seemed like a really cold,
575
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:34,160
fucked up West German politician to me.
576
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:39,080
As if he thought, "Thank God,
they shot my subordinate, not me."
577
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:40,160
Something like that.
578
00:37:40,240 --> 00:37:43,520
That's how he seemed
to a young person working there.
579
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:44,840
And then Mrs. Breuel?
580
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:47,840
Uh, business as usual.
581
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:02,360
[news anchor] Good evening.
582
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:05,360
With an official ceremony,
the German public today
583
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:08,480
bid farewell to the assassinated Treuhand
President, Detlev Karsten Rohwedder.
584
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:09,720
FUNERAL SERVICE IN BERLIN
585
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:11,800
[classical music playing]
586
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:25,720
[reporter] The memorial service
at the Berlin concert hall
587
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:29,880
was attended by 1,300
leading representatives from business,
588
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:32,640
culture, church, and politics.
589
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:36,600
His wife is still in the hospital
with gunshot wounds.
590
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:41,760
Germany's President praised Rohwedder
as a pioneer of German Unity.
591
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:45,120
[Von Weizsäcker] He came
from both East and West.
592
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:49,640
He did not believe
there are essential differences
593
00:38:49,720 --> 00:38:51,160
between East and West Germans,
594
00:38:51,240 --> 00:38:56,040
yet he understood the massive material
and human burden
595
00:38:56,120 --> 00:39:00,320
that had been imposed on our compatriots
in the former GDR.
596
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:05,080
Detlev Rohwedder truly served our people.
597
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:11,400
Yes, very moving.
598
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:17,560
Politics has the ability to honor people,
as they have done here,
599
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:20,960
in a very good, grand gesture.
600
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:24,000
But politics in its daily business is
quite different,
601
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:27,000
and when someone has to go
602
00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:31,120
or has to be replaced,
603
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:33,520
politics doesn't really care.
604
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:42,360
[Ridder] He contributed
his entire reputation, his entire self.
605
00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:47,320
But he also knew
the ins and outs of politics.
606
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:50,920
And politics loves hunting people.
607
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:57,360
He paid for this with his life.
608
00:40:02,240 --> 00:40:05,560
[Mrs. Rohwedder] He was so proud
that he was asked to help.
609
00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:11,440
This country,
which had been so brutally divided,
610
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:15,120
all human relationships…
611
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:19,600
And to make this into one Germany again
612
00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:23,520
was a matter very close to his heart.
613
00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:40,040
THE MURDER OF DETLEV KARSTEN ROHWEDDER
REMAINS UNSOLVED.
614
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:49,720
THE TREUHAND PRIVATIZED
ALL OF THE GDR'S ASSETS.
615
00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:05,480
94% OF COMPANIES WERE TAKEN OVER
BY WEST GERMAN OR INTERNATIONAL INVESTORS.
616
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:10,560
[Bresser] I don't know anything about
its details and history, of course, but…
617
00:41:11,240 --> 00:41:14,240
I'm pretty sure
we could turn this into something nice.
618
00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:22,040
6% REMAINED
WITH THE PEOPLE OF EAST GERMANY.
619
00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:24,760
[siren wails]
620
00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:41,440
[ominous music playing]