Die Zeit article finds that Alfred Bauer, after whom award is named, was high-ranking Nazi
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Berlin film festival has suspended one of its major prizes after revelations that its founding director, Alfred Bauer, after whom the award is named, was an active high-ranking Nazi who was closely involved in a propaganda organisation set up by Josef Goebbels.
Bauer’s controversial past was revealed in an article in Die Zeit, which uncovered historical research suggesting that Bauer was both a member of the Nazi party and a member of the SA, the Nazis’ pre-war paramilitary wing. Bauer also appeared to be a key part of Goebbels’ Reichsfilmintendanz, a body established by the propaganda ministry in 1942 to control the cinema industry.