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Die Geheimnisse des schönen Leo

Against all expectations, the vote of no confidence initiated by the CDU/CSU against chancellor Willy Brandt, who played a policy of compromise instead of Cold War, failed. The CSU politician Leo Wagner, an intimate familiar of F.-J. Strauß, was suspected of having betrayed his party. Because of his passion for nightclubs and beautiful women, the seemingly solid family man was constantly hard up financially, and therefore vulnerable to corruption. The grandson of the protagonist sets out on a search for traces, takes an honest look at the lows of the Bonn republic and unveils bitter secrets from his own family’s history.… >>>