[2] At numerous events, she was heard making antisemitic comments, which led to a number of high-profile musicians boycotting C. Bechstein pianos.

To help raise capital, she sold company property to Hermann Göring through his capacity as Minister President of Prussia.

[2] Bechstein first met Adolf Hitler in 1921 through the writer Dietrich Eckart at her Berchtesgaden villa.

She took a liking to him, invited him to stay at her home when he was in Berlin,[6] and when he was imprisoned after the failed Beer Hall Putsch,[7] she would regularly visit him in prison.

[8] Bechstein herself was sentenced to 60 days hard labour and had 30% of her assets stripped from her for being a Nazi collaborator.