ZDF-Magazin
Introduction '''''ZDF-Magazin''''' was a West German television news magazine, which ran on ZDF from 1969 to 1988.It was presented by Gerhard Löwenthal. It focused on communist-ruled Eastern Europe and was particularly known for reporting on human rights abuses there. The magazine was known for its conservative and anti-socialist views which led to several controversial reactions from viewers and politicians. Löwenthal criticized communists, East Germany, leftist student movement (″red psychoterrorists″), social democrats' Ostpolitik ("communist agents"), the so-called peace movement ("Moscow's partisans") and West German writers such as Heinrich Böll ("sympathizers of leftist fascism").
Literature * Kathrin Gerlof: ''Gegenspieler: Gerhard Löwenthal, Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler''. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1999, * Gerhard Löwenthal/Helmut Kamphausen/Claus Peter Clausen: ''Hilferufe von drüben. Eine Dokumentation wider das Vergessen.'' 3.Auflage, Hänssler-Verlag, Holzgerlingen 2002, * ''Auf den Spuren von Hilferufe von Drüben'', in: Bürgerkomitee Sachsen-Anhalt (Hrsg. ): ''Ost-West-, West-Ost-Geschichten'', Magdeburg 1997
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