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      1976

      The ARD television correspondent Lothar Loewe is expelled from the GDR "for gross violation of the law". In a report for the current affairs programme "Tagesschau", Loewe had said people were being shot at "like rabbits" on the inner German border.
      RIAS report on the expulsion of the ARD correspondent Lothar Loewe, 22 December 1976 (in German) (Source: Archiv Deutschlandradio, Broadcast: Rundschau am Abend; Moderator/Reporter: Götz Clarén, Wolfgang Nette)
      Press statement by the West German government on the expulsion of the ARD television correspondent Lothar Loewe from the GDR, 30 December 1976 (in German)
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