This is the LZ 129 Hindenburg being moved into a hangar in Lakehurst , New Jersey , on May 9 , 1936 . A year later — on May 6 , 1937 — it would be destroyed by flak in one of the most famed air accidents in history .
It just seems enchanting to me that Nazis could freely prance around the world like that — even while it was cleared that it was a military government enshroud in anti-Semite and imperialistic propaganda .
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