ZDF-Magazin
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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").{{Cite web |url=http://www.tv-legenden.de/zeitgeschehen/rote-optik-und-zdf-magazin-vs-schwarzer-kanal/ |title = "Rote Optik" und "ZDF-Magazin" vs. "Schwarzer Kanal" | TV-Legenden |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130624222052/http://www.tv-legenden.de/zeitgeschehen/rote-optik-und-zdf-magazin-vs-schwarzer-kanal/ |archive-date=24 June 2013 |url-status=dead}}
Literature
- Kathrin Gerlof: Gegenspieler: Gerhard Löwenthal, Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1999, {{ISBN|3-596-14183-4}}
- Gerhard Löwenthal/Helmut Kamphausen/Claus Peter Clausen: Hilferufe von drüben. Eine Dokumentation wider das Vergessen. 3. Auflage, Hänssler-Verlag, Holzgerlingen 2002, {{ISBN|3-7751-3807-2}}
- Auf den Spuren von Hilferufe von Drüben, in: Bürgerkomitee Sachsen-Anhalt (Hrsg.): Ost-West-, West-Ost-Geschichten, Magdeburg 1997