This chapter focuses on East German television reports about the Eichmann trial that contributed to a media campaign against the FRG (Federal Republic of Germany). Through this campaign the German Democratic Republic (GDR) tried to influence West German policy, which in turn caused West Germany to react – in the media. The following study describes how East German television commented upon the West German television coverage of the Eichmann trial. On the one hand, it shows that East German programmes assumed that their viewers watched West German television and, on the other hand, that their reports were monitored by the FRG. Television was thus considered as a tool to communicate and interact with the FRG.
