https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_von_Weizsäcker

Richard von Weizsäcker about Helmut Kohl:

Minute: 36 Second: 50
"(...) Es hat über das Da-und-Dort natürlich auch schon kleinere Konspirationen vor dem Jahr '89 gegeben. (...)"
"(...) There has been around the here and there also already smaller conspiracies before the year '89. (...)"

In other words: conspiracies are part of political business.