Berlin film festival suspends prize after Nazi past of director revealed – Die Zeit article finds that Alfred Bauer, after whom award is named, was high-ranking Nazi | the Guardian

The 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.