Uncovering the Reichorchester (The Berlin Phil To You And Me)

Under the Nazi regime, Goebbels renamed the Berlin Philharmonic the Reichsorchester and turned it into the government’s flagship band. For years after the war ended, no one involved would speak about that period, and the orchestra’s archives from the time were destroyed. Now a historian and a filmmaker have produced in-depth looks at that hidden phase in the orchestra’s history.