Laid down in 1936 at the Deutsche Werke shipyard in Kiel, Graf Zeppelin was Nazi Germany's sole aircraft carrier, a 33,550-ton, 262-metre warship meant to carry 42 aircraft and over 1,700 crew.

Here’s What You Need to Know: Had it been completed, Graf Zeppelin could have thrown a wrench into Allied naval warfighting plans. From the first days of his ascension to power, Adolf Hitler planned ...

The Graf Zeppelin came closer than any other German project to becoming an operational aircraft carrier, but it never entered ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Berlin may have dreamed of being a naval airpower, but it never happened. From the first days of his ascension to power, Adolf Hitler planned to rebuild the Kriegsmarine ...

Count Zeppelin's airship made its first flight over Lake Constance (or Bodensee) in southern Germany on July 2, 1900. Courtesy Library of Congress 1899: Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin receives a U.S.

Many people believe Nazis had some of the most advanced technology of World War II. The Messerschmitt Me-163 Komet was probably the fastest plane in the skies back then, even if it was neither safe ...