Here’s What You Need to Know: Had it been completed, Graf Zeppelin could have thrown a wrench into Allied naval warfighting plans. From the first days of his ascension to power, Adolf Hitler planned ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Berlin may have dreamed of being a naval airpower, but it never happened. From the first days of his ascension to power, Adolf Hitler planned to rebuild the Kriegsmarine ...

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany — I am looking at a piece of the Hindenburg — or, rather, its replica: its lounge, reading and writing room, passenger cabins and smoking room (yes, there was one) and bar. It ...

Many people believe Nazis had some of the most advanced technology of World War II. The Messerschmitt Me-163 Komet was probably the fastest plane in the skies back then, even if it was neither safe ...

A German company started regular zeppelin commercial flights Wednesday for the first time since the Hindenburg disaster ended dirigible travel more than six decades ago. In a one-hour trip, the ...

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The fleet, gray Zeppelin Hindenburg, the greatest lighter-than-air craft in the world, was blown asunder and consumed by flames at 7:25 o’clock last night 300 feet above the heads of a thousand ...

Count Zeppelin's airship made its first flight over Lake Constance (or Bodensee) in southern Germany on July 2, 1900. Courtesy Library of Congress 1899: Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin receives a U.S.