This video is about Siegfried Müller, a German Wehrmacht officer turned mercenary. The man earned a reputation during his time fighting in the Congo as a talented soldier, and above all, a murderer.

Der lachende Mann – Bekenntnisse eines Mörders (DDR, 1966 - ENGLISH SUBTITLES)

The Laughing Man - Confessions of a Murderer (GDR, 1996 - ENGLISH SUBTITLES)

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Posing as West German journalists, East German documentary filmmakers Heynowski and Scheumann pay a visit to the notorious Nazi-turned-mercenary Siegfried “Kongo” Müller, pump him with booze, and get him to talk. Müller fought in Congo’s civil war in the 1960s, and the more Pernod he imbibes, the more fascinating this interview becomes. He asserts that blacks are no better than animals and shares his dream of enlisting in the U.S. Army to fight communism in Vietnam and beyond. He flaunts his military paraphernalia, including the Iron Cross he was awarded in Germany in 1945, and proceeds to deny his earlier statements about civil killings, the ethics of war, and the defense of Western libertarian values. This documentary tour-de-force is interspersed with pictures of Müller and his comrades proudly posing with severed skulls, and it touches on other Nazis who are active in Africa as well as American world dominance.