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2020172 minPG-13documentary

True Crime Terrorism Geopolitics

A Perfect Crime

2020172 minPG-13documentary

Unraveling the assassination that shook post-reunification Germany.

“Martyr. Capitalist. Occupier. Victim.”

True Crime Terrorism Geopolitics

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Georg Tschurtschenthaler,

Synopsis

Unraveling the assassination that shook post-reunification Germany.

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Georg Tschurtschenthalerdirector

Jan Peterdirector

Oliver Reissigcast

Beate Malkus

Beate Malkuscast

Tom Pilath

Synopsis

In April 1991, Detlev Rohwedder, the head of Treuhand, the East German Privatization and Restructuring Agency, was assassinated in Dusseldorf. This documentary details the strange evidence recovered.

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