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The short film Giant Dirigible Sets Record, 1936/05/11 (1936) is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive. Hindenburg – End Of A Successful Voyage (Standard 4:3) (1937), Pathgrams (film shows docking team, passengers) Hindenburg – Passengers Disembarking (Standard 4:3) (1937), Pathgrams (film of passengers descending ...
The Hindenburg disaster was an airship accident that occurred on May 6, 1937, in Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.The LZ 129 Hindenburg (Luftschiff Zeppelin #129; Registration: D-LZ 129) was a German commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship, the lead ship of the Hindenburg class, the longest class of flying machine and the largest airship by envelope volume. [1]
The two Hindenburg-class airships were hydrogen-filled, passenger-carrying rigid airships built in Germany in the 1930s and named in honor of Paul von Hindenburg. They were the last such aircraft to be constructed, and in terms of their length, height, and volume, the largest aircraft ever built.
Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg [a] (2 October 1847 – 2 August 1934) was a Prussian-born German military leader and statesman who led the Imperial German Army during the First World War [1] and later became president of Germany from 1925 until his death in 1934.
Gertrud von Hindenburg (1860–1921), German noblewoman and wife of Paul von Hindenburg Paul von Hindenburg (1847–1934), German general in World War I and president of Germany (1925–1934) Oskar von Hindenburg (1883–1960), German officer, Paul von Hindenburg's son
To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. ... Hindenburg, named after the 1937 disaster, epitomized that style of swashbuckling short, but not all of its bets paid off.
Pruss became part of the Hindenburg crew in 1936 on the third flight to Rio de Janeiro. During his career, he flew 171 times over the Atlantic. The final flight of the Hindenburg was May 3–6, 1937, and it was Pruss' first flight as commanding Captain of the Hindenburg. [1] According to Airships.net he was a member of the NSDAP. [2] He died at ...
In August 1934, Hindenburg died, and Hitler seized the president's powers for himself in accordance with the Law Concerning the Head of State of the German Reich, passed the previous day, an action confirmed via the 1934 German referendum later that month. Article 2 stated that the president's powers were to remain "undisturbed" (or "unaffected ...