As Pittsburgher's where hurriedly going between and on their way to work on a cold October 27th afternoon in 1933 a large dark shadow would pass over the downtown and as they looked up many where shocked to see the enormous Nazi Swastickers above them which where on the rear of the Graf Zeppelin one of Nazi Germany's largest Hydrogen Filled Zeppelins
It had just come from Akron visit and was on its way home to Germany after being at the Colombia world exhibit in Chicago .
My Grandparents remember it because it was very unusual to see such a large object in the sky and little did they know the coming implications of it.
My grandfather had ridden a trolley the way to Akron Ohio to see the launch of the USS Akron so I am
sure They got a thrill over it that day seeing it.
But the days of air ships where numbered in 1937 when the Hindenburg went up in flames and in 1940 Herman Goering ordered them all including the Graff scrapped for their valuable metal.
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