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The builder of the Hindenburg, whose name I couldn't locate in the quick search I attempted, received funding from the Third Reich on the condition that the Zepellin be emblazoned with the Hakenkreuz ("swastika"), the by no means neutral emblem of a by no means neutral regime.
Your found press memorializes a tragic event *and* the omen of a happier end of things to come.
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The Deutsches Museum is a wonderful Munich institution devoted to technology. Pass through the main entrance to the transverse hall and look to your right. There, at the center of a helical steel stairs, stands a V2 rocket. Poised as though ready to be fired.
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