West German media blacklisted non-communists who engaged the East or opposed rearmament

Evidence

Even people who openly admitted that they were not anti-communists were exposed to defamation and discrimination. … The Catholic writer Reinhold Schneider, who supported holding a public debate on the rearmament question and serious attempts to reach an understanding with the East, published two articles in East Germany because of a lack of opportunities to publish ideas of this sort in the West. … As a result, many West German journals, newspapers and broadcasting organizations refused to publish anything else by Schneider from then on. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1894

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Postwar West Germans showed mostly negative or ambivalent attitudes toward democratic values — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1888

Broader Connections

• Postwar West Germans showed mostly negative or ambivalent attitudes toward democratic values #corroborates (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1888