The Hindenburg disaster captured in 1937, still one of the most haunting photos in history
by DaringSugarcube
The Hindenburg disaster captured in 1937, still one of the most haunting photos in history
by DaringSugarcube
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God it’s oddly beautiful for a horrible tragedy.
still crazy to think that 62 people actually survived that inferno
Made for an awsome album cover.
*John Bonham kick drum noises intensify*
Oh, the humanity!
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Oh man I have dreams where zeppelin style carriers exist today. How awesome would it be to perfect and have these bad boys shuttling from building tops again. Bring back the zepp!
Just before Covid I went to the Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshaven. It was awesome. They had full size replica sections of the Hindenburg. So many other cool exhibits. Well worth a visit if you are in the area. It’s on the German side of Lake Constance. Europe’s largest lake.
“and just when you though it couldn’t get worse, there’s a dog having sex with a woman! I know I said ‘Oh the humanity’ before, but seriously ‘Oh the humanity,’ even more right now! I mean, come on!”
The accident caused 35 fatalities (13 passengers and 22 crewmen) among the 97 people on board (36 passengers and 61 crewmen), and an additional fatality on the ground.
WW2 titanic moment
And more people were killed in the R101 crash, which (of course) is memorialized in a song by Iron Maiden.
Bum bum, tititiki tiki tiki tiki, bum bum
In the days of my youth….
Also crazy…. A Nazi blimp in New Jersey two years before the start of WW2.
It blows my mind that 62 out of 97 people survived. Like, how did *anyone* survive that??
Fine I’ll listen to led zeppelin tonight
Freakin guy just stands there taking a picture instead of helping…
According to my great-grandmother, my great-uncle was on that tower. Never verified if true but grandpa said it was.
Of the 97 passengers, 62 survived.
https://preview.redd.it/9pl2m1fnce1h1.jpeg?width=625&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=987b8b76aa7e9ccf96c18e8e2b2d9a27209da3c6
oh the humanity.
Spectators were Dazed and Confused.
“…Your Time is gonna Commmmmeeee…”
We used to street race our cars close to where that happened
TIL that there were Nazi party members on board.
It is an iconic photograph
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Good picture, but then again stupid endeavour …. It’s a hydrogen balloon….. we have pictures an video of 300 kids drowning…..that’s haunting— somee 30 people falling to the ground is hardly THE MOST HAUNTING!
one picture of 9/11 makes this a footnote!….
This is not in the top 1000…. Have you ever seen a whole village drowned in 300 feet of dirt?
Only cuz commercial airlines needed to look safer
in the daaaaays of my youth, I was told what it means to be a man
i’d argue the pictures of people jumping out of WTC to their death were much more “haunting”. this was just a tragic explosion
Just listened to the new SYSK episode on my morning walk and it took me a few minutes before I looked down and realized I was wearing my Led Zeppelin shirt with this iconic album art. Very weird.
I know this doesn’t make sense to everyone, but I used to work with a guy that was a witness to the H-Burg. Obviously he was a child at the time, but told his version like it happened yesterday.