The Berliner Philharmoniker in the National Socialist era The Reichsorchester By Misha Aster 1935: Beifall für Wilhelm Furtwängler und die Berliner Philharmoniker; in der ersten Reihe von links u.a. Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels(Photo: Archiv Berliner Philharmoniker) 1933–45 represents a watershed period in the history of the Berliner Philharmoniker. The horrors of the so-called Third Reich decimated Europe and plunged Germany into a state of moral and physical ruin.
