DISQUS

Crispy on the Outside: What’s Buzzing in the World of Beer?

  • Jackson · 1 month ago
    As an aside, is it really a “disaster” when a Nazi airship covered by swastikas blows up?

    Yes, it is. Hugo Eckener, mgr of the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin, hated the Nazis and was nearly carted off to a concentration camp for it. The swastikas only appeared on the tailfins after the company was nationalized (against the company's wishes).

    German zeppelins, with their passenger and mail services, were among the few worthwhile contributions Germany gave during the inter-war period, but, like everything good in German culture, the Nazis shat all over them.
  • Baylen · 1 month ago
    As usually happens, I stand corrected.
  • Jackson · 1 month ago
    I love me some zeppelins!