Last updated: 28 july, 2009 - 12:29 GMT
Life after Communism in eastern Germany
Under Communism, Schwedt's refinery was "a state within a state", says current chief executive Klaus Niemann
Every year, 12 million tonnes of Russian crude oil are refined in the town of Schwedt, in eastern Germany - it is a tenth of all the oil refined in Germany.
But this business also has a human story to tell, of the extraordinary changes that happened in the eastern part of Germany after the Berlin Wall fell in 1989.
Business Daily's Lesley Curwen talked to the workers at the refinery, and townspeople, about their hopes and dreams - 20 years after the end of Communist East Germany.
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First broadcast 28 July 2009
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