Hindenburg also demonstrated its propaganda value on August 1, 1936, when the ship flew over the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. Spectators in the Olympic stadium and crowds of up to 3 million Germans and visitors in the streets of Berlin watched Hindenburg cruise above the city for more than an hour at an altitude of approximately 750 feet.
Under the command of Max Pruss, Hindenburg carried 65 passengers, and also 778 kg of mail (which was dropped by parachute over Berlin’s Tempelhof airfield), and the flight was a financial success for the DZR as well as a propaganda triumph for the Nazi government.
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