Media reports in 2020 revealed that Berlinale founding director Bauer was a key figure in Nazi film propaganda efforts and that, after World War II, he lied about his involvement.
As part of the Reichsfilmintendanz, the division set up by Hitler’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels to promote the Nazi’s racist and antisemitic agenda, Bauer approved such films as Veit Harlan’s, a war drama meant to encourage the German population to fight the Allies to the last man. A Nazi file on Bauer from the time calls him a “devoted” member of the SA, the Nazi Party’s original paramilitary wing.
The full IfZ report concludes that Bauer was not an opponent of the Nazi regime, as he had claimed, but that he, quite to the contrary, contributed to the stabilization and the legitimacy of Hitler’s government through his role in official propaganda. , found that Bauer held “a significant position” in the Nazi propaganda machine and that he was able to conceal this involvement to continue his career in post-WW2 Germany. But, the report concludes, Bauer’s involvement with the Berlinale “did not lead to a Nazi ideological characterization of the festival program.”
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