WI: The Hindenburg Survives?

Max Rakus

Banned
What if the United States had given helium to Germany for airships instead of the Germans using hydrogen?

How would this have effected WWII?, How long would have the Airship era last?, and any other effects that would come out?
 
No longer than two years, due to a slight disagreement between Germany and most of the rest of Europe. Come September 1939 she gets put away with her sistership the Graf Zeppelin II and eventualy scrapped.
 

Max Rakus

Banned
No longer than two years, due to a slight disagreement between Germany and most of the rest of Europe. Come September she gets put away with her sistership the Graf Zeppelin II and eventualy scrapped.

Or maybe the Hindenburg and the Graf Zeppelin II are ran until the very last minute with the airships being stuck in the United States
 
No longer than two years, due to a slight disagreement between Germany and most of the rest of Europe. Come September 1939 she gets put away with her sistership the Graf Zeppelin II and eventualy scrapped.


Post-WWII airplanes have a monopoly on air travel (as per OTL), but since rigid airships have a better rap there's a slight chance somebody attemps to revive airship travel for niche markets (like luxury trains today). Blimps and semi-rigids might be more popular for sightseeing.

Also the LZ-130 might end up with a different name. Part of the rationale behind reusing the Graf Zeppelin name was to recover from bad PR over the Hindenburg diaster. Hitler would never allow it to be named after himself to that's out. It probally get's named something like Bismarck or Maria Theresia (in honor of the Anschluss).
 
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