Dead zeppelins: Brazilian gravesite is airships’ stairway to heaven

The huge gas-filled aircraft were once a symbol of modernity used to burnish the image of the Nazis. Now a vast hangar near Rio de Janeiro is all that’s left The last time a giant swastika flew above the Americas, it was on the zeppelins that pioneered commercial air travel across the Atlantic.

from Pocket https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/27/brazil-zeppelin-hangar-nazis
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