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This documentary takes the viewers to the front line of a secret "Hot War", from 1945 to the end of the 20th century. Germany, a land with two states and two ideologies, divided by a very real wall, was the ideal battlefield for Secret Services such as the KGB. Both sides believed in the "domino theory": if only one stone falls, then a whole row will collapse. If Germany falls and Berlin, then the entire system will break down. For almost 50 years, on both sides of the wall, hordes of spies were waging war on one another. A KGB General, for decades head of the department "Germany", estimates that at the climax of the tensions "every fifth German in West and East Berlin" -- knowingly or unknowingly -- was in contact with a Secret Service. They paid a high price. No-one has ever counted the casualties in this war. There were many of them -- secretaries in Ministries, who were moved by false pretences of love to betray secrets and then committed suicide, computer hackers working for the Russians, exiled politicians from the states of the Soviet Union, agents who built up one contact too many. For the first time high-ranking KGB insiders report on their cases and methods.
This documentary takes the viewers to the front line of a secret "Hot War", from 1945 to the end of the 20th century. Germany, a land with two states and two ideologies, divided by a very real wall, was the ideal battlefield for Secret Services such as the KGB. Both sides believed in the "domino theory": if only one stone falls, then a whole row will collapse. If Germany falls and Berlin, then the entire system will break down. For almost 50 years, on both sides of the wall, hordes of spies were waging war on one another. A KGB General, for decades head of the department "Germany", estimates that at the climax of the tensions "every fifth German in West and East Berlin" -- knowingly or unknowingly -- was in contact with a Secret Service. They paid a high price. No-one has ever counted the casualties in this war. There were many of them -- secretaries in Ministries, who were moved by false pretences of love to betray secrets and then committed suicide, computer hackers working for the Russians, exiled politicians from the states of the Soviet Union, agents who built up one contact too many. For the first time high-ranking KGB insiders report on their cases and methods.
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