I don’t know what documentary you are referring to, but Hindenburg never “switched” to H2 because it never operated with anything else.

The Documentary says they switched to hydrogen when they added the 2nd deck for 20 people. It was lighter and able to carry the added weight.

This is true about boarding houses.My Polish immigrant grandparents married and lived in a boarding house for almost 15 years before they bought their first home. My dad was almost 9 years old, the youngest. My grandmother gave birth to 3 boys while living in the boarding house!. She actually bore twins with my dad, but his twin was stillborn. I think this had to be a rough life. I don’t know if they kept 1 room or rented 2. My grandmother returned to work when all the boys were in school. But, they dropped out after 7th grade. Each went to work. The oldest was in WWII and survived. The next 2 still enlisted when the war was over.

It is so so sad with all those lives lost. 🙁

Out of 96 people on board, only 30 + died, not bad for such an incident. Let’s not forget that since the early 1900s, German Zeppelins, using hydrogen, had an amazing safety record, the Graf carried over 40,000 passengers in its career with not one life lost or hurt. They mastered to use of hydrogen and was proven safe by the exacting standards and protocols employed by the Zeppelin Company.

If you were familiar with Pullman Sleeping Cars on trains of that era, most passengers would wear bathrobes and slippers and have to go to the men’s or women’s {lounge) at either end of the coach to use a toilet or use a shower. It was also typical of boarding houses or rooming houses were the bathroom was down at the end of the hall. People in the early 20th Century were used to trekking to a bathroom to take a bath, shave, etc. It was no big deal to see other passengers in a bathrobe and pajamas heading to the shared bathroom.

No one smashed any windows. Do your research.

Many of the windows were able to be opened; I am not sure if any were smashed or how easy that would have been to do, but yes, many people survived by jumping out promenade windows.