A Perfect Crime

Season

2020

Germany

7.3

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.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Martyr

The murder of Detlev Rohwedder, shot as he stood by a window in his Düsseldorf home, shakes the nation. But insiders understood the danger he was in.

S1 • E2

Capitalist

In a letter left at the scene of the crime the RAF claims responsibility for the assassination of Rohwedder; however, a lack of evidence and motivation shadow this in doubt.

S1 • E3

Occupier

Questions arise about the motivation behind the assassination of Rohwedder and whether or not it was the RAF or former Stasi officers.

S1 • E4

Victim

Political tensions heat up after German reunification and East Germany's transition from socialism to capitalism. The police botch an operation to capture an RFA member and suspect in the assassination of Rohwedder.