Christian D. D.’s Reviews > The Hindenburg > Status Update

“On Friday March 6, the LZ 129 as it was called in Germany, and the Hindenburg elsewhere, made a three-hour trial flight”—p. 78

Wow, Goebbels actually didn’t want the ship to bear the name of “the old grey man of the old regime.”

“Over Western Russia a soldier with an excess of Soviet xenophobia emptied his tommygun at the great silver airship, but only succeeded in puncturing a few gas cells which Chief Knorr easily repaired.”—p. 56

With an American-made submachine gun no less; oh, the irony!

“Although Jews might easily be proved the ‘spoilers of modesty,’ ‘the wreckers of good art,’ and ‘the secret influences behind the new industrial corporations,’ no one would go about hating the occupants of the nearby table, some of whom were, in fact, Jewish.”—p. 46

“If one read what the Socialist newspapers had to say, the impression might be gleaned that before the war, life was poor, nasty, brutish, and short—lived out in the squalor of industrial slums. But the painters had caught the spirit of things more truthfully: their impressions were of picnics in the shade of green trees by city streams…
…When the painters saw sadness, it was bittersweet.
They did not paint despair.”