Word: friedrichshafen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entered the great Chancellery hall lined with servants dressed in silver braid, blue coats, red vests, black silk knee breeches. The Führer received seven of the delegation. Their program in Germany was to include visits to the Limes Line, the Krupp works and the Zeppelin plant at Friedrichshafen, and a short ride on a German warship as the guest of Reich Commander in Chief of the Navy Admiral Eric Raeder...
...small squad of French planes attacked the Zeppelin works at Friedrichshafen, with possible damage to an aircraft factory...
...each other the first shots in that sector since the war began. As this activity lengthened into the night of its first 24 hours, throngs gathered on the Swiss shore of Lake Constance, awed at the fireworks of a French aerial foray, apparently against the Zeppelin plant at Friedrichshafen, now devoted to building airplane engines. Onlookers counted 30 bombs, watched Nazi tracer bullets seek out the enemy. Berlin denied any appreciable damage to the plant, claimed eight French planes had been downed...
...Unconfirmed was a report last week that the Graf Zeppelin was blown up at her moorings in Friedrichshafen...
...Friedrichshafen, where a larger sister of the Emdenburg is nearing completion, stunned workers doggedly kept at work though even Dr. Eckener admitted: "It is impossible to foretell what effect this acci- dent may have on the future of the airship...