It can be hard to believe it in hindsight. But before the 1940s, the relationship between Germany and the United States wasn't all that different from any other influential European country. That's ...

On 15 August 1929, the Spanish doctor Jerónimo Megías fulfilled his dream by embarking on the first trip around the world in the Graf Zeppelin. It was not the first time that Megías, King Alfonso XIII ...

Born into German nobility in 1838, Ferdinand von Zeppelin attended an engineering college and then joined the German army. During the U.S. Civil War, he was sent to Virginia to serve as an observer ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Laid down in 1936, the ship would never see service. From the first days of his ascension to power, Adolf Hitler planned to rebuild the Kriegsmarine into a world-class ...

Just as the German airship Graf Zeppelin hovered over her home port Friedrichshafen last week, the German Lloyd seaship Columbus moored fast to her Manhattan dock. Aboard her was James Leslie Kincaid, ...

In 2021, an expedition off the icy northern Greenland coast spotted what appeared to be a previously uncharted island. It was small and gravelly, and it was declared a contender for the title of the ...

“All aboard for Friedrichshafen, Tokyo, Los Angeles!” bawled a sergeant of Marines at Lakehurst, N. J., one midnight last week. The Graf Zeppelin, steel blue in the floodlights, was trimmed to ...

While exploring the Baltic Sea in 2006, a Polish oil firm stumbled upon the remains of Germany’s first – and last – aircraft carrier at 80 meters depth off the coast near Gdansk. It was a discovery ...

WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s navy said yesterday that it has identified a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea as almost certainly Nazi Germany’s only aircraft carrier, the Graf Zeppelin — a find that promises to ...