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In January 2020, almost 70 years after the founding of the Berlin International Film Festival, the general public learned that the role played by the Berlinale’s first director Alfred Bauer as a film consultant in the “Reichsfilmintendanz”, the central government institution for controlling film production during the Nazi regime, was more significant than had previously been known. It became evident that, after 1945, Alfred Bauer had systematically obscured his activities [...]