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::: silver giants::: Hindenburg

Arrrr, Mateys

Aloha, say "HI" to the Hindenburg.

few minutes on our TV station, the remake of
"Hindenburg" flicker [Sunday, 06:02:11, at 20.15 clock RTL]
and then I remembered that I once sat in my pantry

and have made history on Hindenburg.

And as it sees fit,
I dusted off the story again

and will not hide from you. A lot of reading enjoyment

with the "silver giants" want you to cover

the JACK

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At a time when airships exorbitant long linked the continents, an idea
influenced the life of my father, a seasoned
Postmaster General of the Imperial rice post.

was his dream, that you find people and goods one day
regular mail transported by air.
And the day came on which turned to my father with this concern
Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin and suggested this idea.

eight long years should be patient for my father,
until there was the first emergency cards of airships.
Airmail developed and a year later there was even an airship
own postmark.

now My father dreamed of it to cross the Atlantic.
He spoke constantly of zeppelins, mailbags and destinations.
His heart's desire was to be one passenger in a zeppelin,
to watch the flight time to sell me letters or greeting
letter and mail bombings. But it would take more years to
realized his wish.

There were many reasons to read his desire to put him back.
My father was sick, very sick.
He was Postmaster General as good medical care,
did not help him to get better faster.

Fortunately, he got to know and love in the hospital and my mother.
The time of his recovery lasted relatively long periods of time, but he lost in
difficult time never gave up hope, nor the passion to
the Zeppelins and the post office. subjected

While my parents in the Netherlands,
had children and enjoyed her life, put my mother
our children lovingly, while my father became a passionate
philatelists and everything for a
blazes first Zeppelin airmail stamps.

My brother and I developed two
brave and enterprising children. And as I got older, I
told my parents that I wanted to be a photographer.
This finding was nothing new for my father, for he had
albums full of photos of me in the cupboards are
and he nodded knowingly.

Apparently he knew even then that it is important
to follow his inner drive, cost what it may.
And he revealed to my brother and me his secret heart's desire.

The last three years he had followed meticulously
as a giant of the Zeppelin airships of a length of 245 meters was mounted
. The ship was named after the late Chancellor
and operated on many routes
the "Graf Zeppelin" to relieve.

Belly of the cigar was he even ride in his life.
When we reported our mother about it, she was full of energy and was frustrated almost
the fact that they had not perceived father's passion for full size
. And the way she could convince my father at that time in the hospital
to recover, to marry her, she
did everything to him to fulfill this great desire.

It was May, my father seemed very excited, because
mother had done it in a roundabout way to obtain
two tickets for a Zeppelin tour.

In March, she had already tried
tickets for the first successful trip Zeppelin To get to South America,
but this flight had been assigned only to very important people.
two more airships were made in planning,
because the euphoria among the people was so great, were booked
and sailing on domestic routes constantly.

But his father's wish fulfillment is within reach.
My brother and I should not ride,
my mother decided, and we are not sorry.
This happiness should enjoy our parents all to themselves.

way our parents started on 3 May in comfortable passenger space
North America for the first flight of the airship port Rhein-Main.
With them were 40 passengers and 60 crew on board the Hindenburg
. I gave my father my Kodak Retina with
and asked him for my brother and me to make some memories.
He smiled and patted me on the head.
This gesture I will never forget.

From later eyewitness accounts, I learned that my parents have
like to sit in the dining room.
My mother drank her coffee black, while my father,
as a passionate collector, filled his post-Zeppelin to let
provided them with the stamp of the Hindenburg.

You must have been happy for this moment.
On 6 May, from 17 ° ° American Clock time, my parents
reached the American coast. A storm front was approaching from the west Lakehurst,
so that the captain gave command of the zeppelin, to the coast to turn
as a landing under these conditions was not possible.

Moreover, the ground crew to prepare for landing
not finished. So the airship turned off again and flew
about New York to shoot another round
to the Empire State Building. How fortunate that I had given my father
the Kodak Retina. Excited, he stood at the window
and photographed for us children while my Mother comforting him
put his hand on the shoulder.

For New Yorkers it
was like for my parents a great event,
as the silver cigar from Germany appeared in the sky.
The Zeppelin was welcomed stormy and the sirens wailed up loud.
My parents saw how all the streets were filled with cars.
Everyone seemed to ride to the landing place for their arrival to be considered.
And so was the Hindenburg at Lakehurst course again. To clock 17.12

received a radio message from the captain,
that the weather had improved and a landing was possible.
Sun penetrated the ship in the dark Storm clouds towards Lakehurst one.
over the landing field was light rain and my father scolded easy
the wayward pictures he verknipste.

While the captain his experienced officers
at the helm of the air vessels ordered
expected a large crowd of people, newspaper reporters and cameramen
despite some adverse weather conditions, the Hindenburg.

clock set at 19.15 the ship to land.
American ground crew was waiting on the ground.
Everything went according to plan. Maybe there were still about 80 yards over the place,
than four long ropes down
were standing on the ground and the team was taken,
pull down the ship.

Every man in the ship had taken his landing position.
My parents were in the dining room on the port side of the window.
Below them waved happily to the people.
No one noticed the blood-red glow in the sky
and that the ship began to burn at the rear.

And then everything happened very quickly.
The ship sank impetuously from over the stern,
up to an inclination of about 45 °.
After the inflammation of the Hindenburg shot a jet of flame to the bow of the airship
and threw some people out easily.
crew members and paraphernalia of the dining room fell through the nacelle.
The Kodak Retina fell to the floor when my father a part of the team,
who had hastened to balance the bow of the zeppelin, tumble down into the depths of him.

Horrified, he tore away my mother from the windows.
Meanwhile, the burning Zeppelin sank further from the ground.
A strong jolt went through the ship and a huge explosion was heard.
My parents were hurled by the explosion to the ground and rolled,
they found the vessel, with a slope of 70 ° up,
aft against the separation wall between the cabins and the gas cells.

Their only thought was for us children, and reverently
they surrendered to their fate.
There was a second explosion. At the same time a huge flame
raced through the ship and struck out the front of the bow.

When my parents felt the heat and the cries of the people heard
were already covered by the flames, they came to their senses.
horror seized my mother, for the idea that they should burn
on living bodies, they could shake up
screaming my father. My father considered only briefly.

He wanted to rather break his neck, as
burn and so my parents act hastily.
The ship that sank deeper in the first explosion,
reared up again. In anxiety, the Ship could in the middle
break apart and the part where they were to climb,
a few hundred meters, only to burst apart,
took my father my mother's hand, ripped it over the railing
in the dining room and pulled it forward again to the free window.

My mother saw how a woman threw her two young sons
from the burning ship to save them. The third child, a girl jumped out
itself. My parents came to the window with a lot of effort
and squeezed through. Whether they have made Thoughts,
when striking the ground as quickly as possible to run away a few feet,
to prevent the descendants of the falling debris
they buried the ship that I still can not answer any more.

jumped from 18 meters to the ground and crawled my parents a few meters away,
caught up to the breaking of the ship remains of them. A huge sea of flames poured
about my mother and my father.

The screams of people echoed in the ruins for ...
could not help. 35 people were killed,
in just 32 seconds, the Hindenburg was burned.



The next day, the wreck of the Hindenburg was investigated.
against looting the wreck of the American military guarded.
soldiers found many small burnt belongings in the rubble. So did my
had melted and unusable Kodak Retina,
made with my father's last pictures.

also saved the soldiers 368 letters from 17 609 postal items.
My brother and I reached such a last greeting from our parents.
Stamped on the airship, the Hindenburg, which no longer exists.

To this day I bear the stamp as a gift from my father,
in constant reminder of the inferno in my wallet with me.

HINDENBURG

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