7.3/10349 votes#1 - The Perpetrators
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/30/2016
How does hatred arise that does not shy away from murder? The first part of this comprehensive film trilogy illuminates the history and background of the NSU (National Socialist Underground). The focus is on the development and radicalization of the right-wing scene since the early 1990s, the increasing propensity for violence in the right-wing milieu and the emergence of the terror cell. How did three young people with middle-class backgrounds, who in 1989 lived in a world in which everything and nothing seemed possible for their generation, decide to join the right-wing terrorist underground?
Director: Christian Schwochow
Writer: Thomas Wendrich
7.3/10249 votes#2 - The Victims
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/4/2016
How could it happen that predominantly only one direction was determined? In September 2000, 14-year-old Semiya was awakened at four in the morning. Her father is said to have had an accident. Only in the hospital does she learn that eight shots were fired at Enver Şimşek. He is in a coma and dies two days later. There are hardly any traces, but a witness claims to have accompanied Enver on a supposed drug transport. The investigation focuses on the family. When the witness's testimony is refuted, the investigation fizzles out. Over the next few years, 8 more businessmen, 7 Turks and one Greek, are murdered with the same weapon....
Director: Züli Aladag
Writer: Laila Stieler
6.9/10214 votes#3 - The Investigators
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/6/2016
Why do we still have no clarity about the murderers' environment and their network? Paul Winter, a target investigator in Thuringia, is called to the head of the LKA together with his superior and closest confidant Walter Ahler in January 1998. Three right-wing radicals have gone into hiding, and the target manhunt is to find them. What begins as a routine assignment turns into a year-long struggle with the institutions, as the two police officers encounter unexpected resistance - from other authorities as well as within their own house...
Director: Florian Cossen
Writer: Rolf Basedow, Christoph Busche, Jan Braren
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After German reunification, the neo-Nazi National Socialist Underground begins a killing spree while cops fight an uphill battle to catch them.
Genres:DramaCrime
Network:Das Erste
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"The Perpetrators" is the best rated episode of "NSU German History X" season 1. It scored 7.3/10 based on 349 votes. Directed by Christian Schwochow and written by Thomas Wendrich, it aired on 3/30/2016. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "The Victims".