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Germany's war preparations starting to divert resources away from civilian enterprises during the time probably didn't help either. Those zeppelins were massive

• WalterBright 2y ago
  The Zeppelins were funded by the government for their massive propaganda value.
• yieldcrv 2y ago
  I was thinking that too A lot of trends were cut short by the world wars A lot of things I like from the 1890s and 1900 early aughts just stopped being made or were never explored fully, and then I remembered “oh yeah, everybody died” and its like the first time in hundreds of years that something so broadly affected so many socioeconomic classes in so many places at once happened again in the late 1930s
• SoftTalker 2y ago
  That's also why they were using hydrogen gas in the first place. Helium was too expensive.