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A perfect crime of rapacious capitalism
West German politician Detlev Rohwedder was responsible for selling off the GDR’s public industries after the fall of its government. But a documentary on his 1991 assassination still leaves unanswered questions about both his death and the West’s takeover of East Germany, says DENNIS LAUMANN
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WHILE German reunification, which marked its 30th anniversary on October 3, is recognised as one of the major events marking the end of the cold war, many East Germans were opposed to what they considered the annexation of their country by the West.
In A Perfect Crime, a new four-part documentary series on Netflix about the 1991 assassination of West German politician Detlev Rohwedder, we hear some of those dissenting voices and discover why reunification was catastrophic for many East Germans.
Rohwedder was chairman of the Treuhandanstalt (“Trust Agency”), the government body that oversaw the denationalisation and privatisation of East Germany’s state industries in the months leading to reunification.
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