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Quotes About Hindenburg

Dead Commander, enter into Valhalla now! Speech at Hindenburg's funeral in Tannenberg Monument, August 7, 1934
~ Adolf Hitler
Jeans fit the mature male one of two ways, both dirigible in nature. You make a public impression that's either Hindenburg or Goodyear blimp.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Our camels plodded along. Katrina tried to kiss, or possibly spit on Hindenburg, and Hindenburg farted in response. I found this a depressing commentary on boy-girl relationships.
~ Rick Riordan
A first hint of the power of the electronic media to bring disaster directly into living rooms came with the radio broadcast of the explosion of the zeppelin "Hindenburg," in 1937 . . .
~ R. W. Apple
Tonight, history was going to be made. And it wasn't the discovery-of-radium, first-man-on-the-moon happy kind of history. It was the Spanish-Inquisition, here-comes-the-Hindenburg bad kind of history.
~ Eoin Colfer
Hindenburg—known widely as the Old Gentleman—remained the last counterbalance to Hitler's power and several days before Dodd's departure had made a public declaration of displeasure at Hitler's attempts to suppress the Protestant Church.
~ Erik Larson
Mr. Stallone and Ms. Stone… a meeting as disastrous as the Hindenburg crashing into the Titanic
~ John Wilson
All positivity all the time. Learn to fly, even if it's in the Hindenburg.
~ Max Brooks
In a plebiscite held twelve days [after Hindenburg's death], the country gave [Hitler] an overwhelming mandate making his dictatorship even more unassailable. In pious, picturesque Oberammergau, 92 percent of the villagers voted for Hitler, prompting a Berlin newspaper to ask, "Did Judas Vote No?
~ Julia Boyd
Herzog might have been willing to do that. But this season he apparently felt that it was his obligation as a responsible citizen to alert the public back in North Texas that something dreadful was about to happen. Poor Whitey was trying to cry out a warning, like somebody shouting to the captain of the Hindenburg to turn on the "No Smoking" sign.
~ Mike Shropshire
As the Nazis continued to lose national elections but increase their share of the vote, the octogenarian president, Paul von Hindenburg, selected as chancellor the bumbling Franz von Papen, who tried to rule through martial authority. When Philipp Frank came to visit him in Caputh that summer, Einstein lamented, "I am convinced that a military regime will not prevent the imminent National Socialist [Nazi] revolution."13 As
~ Walter Isaacson
Nor could a younger generation whose 'working lives' had been entirely without work find much enthusiasm for a self-professed working-class party, the SPD, which had – however necessary it had objectively been – kept Brüning in office and voted Hindenburg back into power.
~ Ian Kershaw
You have delivered up our holy German Fatherland to one of the greatest demagogues of all time,' wrote Ludendorff – who had experience of what he was writing about – to his former wartime colleague Hindenburg. 'I solemnly prophesy that this accursed man will cast our Reich into the abyss and bring our nation to inconceivable misery. Future generations will damn you in your grave for what you have done.
~ Ian Kershaw