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Kessler is a television series produced by the BBC in 1981, starring Clifford Rose in the title role.
The six-part serial is a sequel to the Second World War drama series Secret Army, set in the present day and following the progress of former SS Sturmbannführer Ludwig Kessler, now living under the alias of industrialist Manfred Dorf, and trying to avoid being discovered as a war criminal. Ranged against him are West German intelligence operative Richard Bauer (Alan Dobie) and young Israeli vigilante Mical Rak (Nitza Saul). Bauer and Rak’s quest for justice moves from Europe to Paraguay, where other notorious real-life war criminals, Martin Bormann and Josef Mengele are featured.
Another prominently placed character is Kessler’s daughter Ingrid (Alison Glennie), an advocate of Nazism who schemes for the young Nazis to take over from the old guard and tries to persuade her father to give financial backing to their organisation.
The premise for Kessler has its origins in the unscreened…