#thank you this post for making me google Hindenberg and at least look at the wikipedia abt it | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

minicy · 4 months ago

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[ID. The Hindenberg over Manhattan on May 6th, 1937. It is a smooth, long blimp. It has four tailfins; the top and bottom fins have bold Nazi flags on them. The image is black and white and taken from a plane slightly above the ship. End ID.]

it was pretty convenient for american history textbooks that the hindenburg burned swastika side first so they could use pictures of that without doing some very awkward explaining about why there was a nazi airship docking in new jersey

#HELLO???#my school never went over the hindenberg and it never interested me enough to do my own research til now-- WHAT?#it wasn't just a nazi sky boat it had fucking SWASTIKAS on the tailfins #oh my god!!!#the scraps were given back to Germany and used to make airships for the fucking luftwaffe #thank you this post for making me google Hindenberg and at least look at the wikipedia abt it #the images of the hindenberg having a lovely little nazi fucking voyage over manhattan got to me the worst #it makes sense. totally checks out for how the US was before joining the war. makes sense for the timeline. 37 would be a nazi year #was never told to me and i never put those pieces together bc i never cared all that much. god damn!

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