A film critical of the Bonn government for not fully removing the verdicts of the notorious Peoples Courts of the Nazi era from official records has been banned from distribution by the West German Foreign Ministry, the Frankfurter Rundschau reported. The film, “Die Weiese Rose” (The White Rose) which tells the story of a wartime anti-Nazi group, was to be distributed worldwide by the Goethe Institutes which are largely supported by government funds.
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