THE HINDENBURG - WHAT REALLY HAPPENED! Q-DROP #142 I did a lot of research and even translated a SPIEGEL article from 1962. Q asked: who died during the "accident". The trace leads to a crew member ...  https://files.catbox.moe/bjrxq6.jpg SPIEGEL Magazine Nr. 33, (Germany) of  1962 (transcript edited) SABOTAGE IN UNIT 4 The letter came from Milwaukee. It was dated 8th of April 1937 and adressed to the German embassy in Washington. In the letter a Mrs Kathie Rauch asked the ambassador:  " Please inform the Zeppelin company that the Hindenburg will be destroyed on it's way into another country by using a time bomb. This is no joke! If you want to save lifes, stop these flights!" The flights weren't stopped. Indeed Göring ordered the Gestapo to sift through the Zeppelin but gave "green light" after nothing was detected. But in the evening hours of May 6th happened what Kathie Rauch predicted.  The by 2.5 million insured Zeppelin went up in flames. An immediatly after the katastrophe appointed investigative commission decided, the disaster was caused by natural reasons. Probably, the commission assumed, static electricity or a lightning strike ignited the Hindenburg which was filled with 200,000 cubic meters of highly explosive hydrogene.  However, Adolph Hoehling, editor of the Washington "Army Times", claims, the Zeppelin was destroyed by a time bomb. Since he also was a trained airship pilot, he was interested in the fate of the Hindenburg. Hoehling travelled to Germany, studied the report of the accident and interviewed the survivors. Almost all crew members told him, the Zeppelin company received a lot of threatening letters in the past. Hoehling claims that Eric Spehl, a rigger on board of the Hindenburg, was a highly suspicious guy. He had a girlfriend at that time, called (Red) Hilda Schmidt, who attended bars, known as communist hangouts. After the departure of the Zeppelin, Hilda enquired every day at the Zeppelin office if the airship has been landed safe in NY. Hoehling also collected compromising facts about Spehl: Spehl had permanent access to unit 4 where the fire started (except right before landing). Before landing he took position in unit 16, the furthest point away from unit 4. He was a photographer and knew how to prepare a bomb out of a flashlight bulb. During the flight he told his workmates about nightmares he had, but refused to tell details. The Zeppelin company stated: ignition caused by electric wires was impossible. Chief steward Kubis and chief engineer Sauter who stayed during the explosion near unit 4 told, the first ignition looked like flashlights. Spehl probably didn't want to die. He simply didn't calculate the enormous delay of the ship. Finally, after years of research, Cpt. Rosendahl the former chief commander of Lakehurst, showed Hoehling a letter, he had received of the departement for explosives of the NY police. He handed the letter to the US-comission back then but they didn't take notice of it. The letter: (Chief inspector of the department Harry Campbell)  "Detective George McCartney has delivered a sample to our chief chemist for the purpose of an analysis - the object was of a black solid substance, a mixture of magnesium dioxide, zinc oxide and blacklead covered in a thin layer of cotton. Because of the chemical composition I can tell, it is highly likely the residue of a dry-cell battery" Hoehling comes to the conclusion that Spehl fabricated and hid the bomb in order of an unknown handler. https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-45141162.html ERICH SPEHL https://facesofthehindenburg.blogspot.com/2009/04/erich-spehl.html?m=1 Wikipedia In 1962, A. A. Hoehling published Who Destroyed the Hindenburg?, in which he rejected all theories but sabotage, and named a crew member as the suspect. Erich Spehl, a rigger on the Hindenburg who died in the fire, was named as the saboteur.  Hoehling claimed the following in naming Spehl as the culprit: Spehl's girlfriend had communist beliefs and anti-Nazi connections. The fire's origin was near the catwalk running through Gas Cell 4, which was an area of the ship generally off-limits to anyone other than Spehl and his fellow riggers. Hoehling's claim that Chief Steward Heinrich Kubis told him the Chief Rigger Ludwig Knorr noticed damage of Cell 4 shortly before the disaster. Rumors that the Gestapo had investigated Spehl's possible involvement in 1938. Spehl's interest in amateur photography, making him familiar with flashbulbs that could have served as an igniter. The discovery by representatives of the New York Police Department (NYPD) Bomb Squad of a substance that was later determined to likely be "the insoluble residue from the depolarizing element of a small, dry battery." (Hoehling postulated that a dry cell battery could have powered a flashbulb in an incendiary device.) The discovery by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents of a yellow substance on the valve cap of the airship between cells 4 and 5 where the fire was first reported. Although initially suspected to be sulfur, which can ignite hydrogen, it was later determined that the residue was actually from a fire extinguisher. A flash or a bright reflection in gas cell 4, that crew members near the lower fin had seen just before the fire. Hoehling's hypothesis goes on to say that it is unlikely that Spehl wanted to kill people, and that he intended the airship to burn after the landing. However, with the ship already over 12 hours late, Spehl was unable to find an excuse to reset the timer on his bomb. Erich Spehl died in the fire and was therefore unable to refute the accusations that surfaced a quarter of a century later. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_disaster The Unredacted One piece of physical evidence to support the sabotage theory was residue from a small dry battery found in the wreckage by the New York bomb squad. It was the kind of battery that could have powered a camera flash, something that could conceivably have been used as part of an incendiary device. This lead to crew member Erich Spehl coming under suspicion. Spehl was known to be a keen amateur photographer and would have had access to such batteries. Some witnesses to the explosion remember seeing a bright flash in the area where it started. Engineer Rudolf Sauter even described hearing what sounded like a camera flash. Spehl, a rigger, was also one of only a few crew members that had access to the area of the ship where the explosion was thought to have started. Digging into Spehl’s background revealed a possible motive. His girlfriend back in Germany was thought to have communist sympathies and had been interrogated by the Gestapo for anti-Nazi radicalism. Had Spehl intended to get his own back on the Nazi regime by destroying the Hindenburg? Like the other suspect Joseph Spah, it may have been that Spehl had only intended to destroy the Hindenburg itself rather than kill any passengers. The ship was 12 hours late and its speculated than Spehl may have been unable to retrieve the device in time to stop it going off before the ship had landed. https://theunredacted.com/the-hindenburg-disaster-terror-at-lakehurst/ U.S. law prevented the Hindenburg from using helium instead of hydrogen, which is more flammable. After the crash of the hydrogen-filled R101, in which most of the crew died in the subsequent fire rather than the impact itself, Hindenburg designer Hugo Eckener sought to use helium, a less flammable lifting gas. However, the United States, which had a monopoly on the world supply of helium and feared that other countries might use the gas for military purposes, banned its export, and the Hindenburg was reengineered. After the Hindenburg disaster, American public opinion favored the export of helium to Germany for its next great zeppelin, the LZ 130, and the law was amended to allow helium export for nonmilitary use. After the German annexation of Austria in 1938, however, Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes refused to ink the final contract. https://www.history.com/news/the-hindenburg-disaster-9-surprising-facts 😅 Thanks!