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After the Hindenburg disaster, American public opinion favored the export of helium to Germany for its next great zeppelin, the LZ , and the law was amended to allow helium export for nonmilitary use. After the German annexation of Austria in , however, Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes refused to ink the final contract. Despite being filled with 7 million cubic feet of highly combustible hydrogen gas, the Hindenburg featured a smoking room.
Passengers were unable to bring matches and personal lighters aboard the zeppelin, but they could buy cigarettes and Cuban cigars on board and light up in a room pressurized to prevent any hydrogen from entering.
The piano, which was made mostly of aluminum alloy and covered in yellow pigskin, weighed less than pounds. Although the Hindenburg was in development before the Third Reich came to power, members of the Nazi regime viewed it as a symbol of German might.
Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels ordered the Hindenburg to make its first public flight in March as part of a joint 4,mile aerial tour of Germany with the Graf Zeppelin to rally support for a referendum ratifying the reoccupation of the Rhineland. Hindenburg provided safe and timely freight services. Hindenburg also carried large valuables such as automobiles, pianos and aeroplanes. Father Paul Schulte received a papal dispensation to perform the mass after giving assurances that the sacramental wine would not spill during the service.
Passengers spotted Boston just before noon. This photograph from a collectible August Zeppelin calendar celebrates this challenging aerial feat. Hindenburg made 62 successful flights before her ghastly end on 6th May In the end, 13 of 36 passengers, 22 of 61 crew members, and one member of the civilian ground crew lost their lives in the disaster. Zeppelin Hindenburg, transatlantic workhorse. In and , the Zeppelin Hindenburg was the quickest way to travel between the United States and Europe.
LZ Hindenburg dazzled the world as the latest in a series of advances in transoceanic transportation. By , the Cunard liners Etruria and Umbria crossed the Atlantic at 19 knots in about a week. He was The cause was complications of pneumonia, his son, Bernie Doehner, said. Today, there are no survivors left. The last survivor Millvina Dean, who was just two months old at the time of the tragedy, died in at the age of He survived the crash, but suffered very serious burns on much of his body, including his face, and remained in a New York hospital for many months.
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