The BND File: The Secret Service and Its First Arms Dealer

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Niels Stolberg
Niels Stolberg

Self

Erich Schmidt-Eenboom
Erich Schmidt-Eenboom

Self

Viktor Yushchenko
Віктор Ющенко

Self

Mykola Malomuzh
Mykola Malomuzh

Self

David E.A. Johnson
David E.A. Johnson

Self, executive director, Center for Advanced Defense Studies

Frank Passade
Frank Passade

Self, executive director, Center for Advanced Defense Studies

Luuk van de Vondervoort
Luuk van de Vondervoort

Self, European Institute for Peace

André Hahn
André Hahn

Self

Volodimir Kalinin
Volodimir Kalinin

Self, security administrator, Port of Oktyabrsk, Ukraine

Bruno Kahl
Bruno Kahl

Self, president of German Federal Intelligence Service

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    In occupied post-war Germany, the ex-paratrooper and former SS man Gerhard Mertins rises to become a powerful arms dealer. He has many contacts in the Middle East and with old Nazi greats, a man who therefore becomes interesting for secret services. He starts right after the Second World War as a simple taxi entrepreneur in Bremerhaven, but soon he does best business with the German secret service BND and also the American CIA. Until today many files about Mertins are secret. Because against German laws, against international law, Mertins moved weapons into war zones with the backing and sometimes on behalf of the German secret service BND. For almost two years, the team around author Rainer Kahrs did research for the film. For the first time, the BND granted a camera team access to files on Gerhard Mertins, the first BND arms dealer. For the first time, Mertins' wife and daughter also speak in front of the camera.

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    2019-03-11

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