Tarantel (Turkish: Tarantula) was a German monthly satirical magazine in Berlin, West Germany, which was in circulation between 1950 and 1962.
Being a propaganda publication it was started to address the readers in East Germany[1] and was funded by the American intelligence organization CIA.
[1][3] Its founder was the German journalist Heinz Wenzel, known as Heinrich Bär, who also edited the magazine.
[7] The company employed Tarantel as part of its propaganda war against East Germany which was ridiculed by the magazine.
[3][4] Christian F. Ostermann argues that the Kampfgruppe gegen Unmenschlichkeit (KgU) (German: Combat Group against Inhumanity) was behind the magazine.