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The Hindenburg and Graf Zeppelin airships float above the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, with a large square and statue visible in the foreground.

A German Zeppelin airship flies above several warships in Kiel Bay, Germany, during a World War I maneuver.

Large airship Graf Zeppelin on the ground with crowds of people gathered below its nose and gondola, shown in a black-and-white photograph.

The German Hindenburg zeppelin engulfed in flames and smoke as it explodes while docking at a mooring mast in Lakehurst, New Jersey.

Tragic disaster of the Hindenburg airship

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Key People

Ferdinand, Graf von Zeppelin

Ferdinand, Graf von Zeppelin

German military official

Eckener, 1931

Hugo Eckener

German aeronautical engineer

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Hindenburg zeppelin crashing, 1937

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