[tomatotomato37]

Germany's war preparations starting to divert resources away from civilian enterprises during the time probably didn't help either. Those zeppelins were massive investments in terms of material and industry after all

[yieldcrv]

I was thinking that too

A lot of trends were cut short by the world wars

A lot of things I like from the 1890s and 1900 early aughts just stopped being made or were never explored fully, and then I remembered “oh yeah, everybody died” and its like the first time in hundreds of years that something so broadly affected so many socioeconomic classes in so many places at once

happened again in the late 1930s

[SoftTalker]

That's also why they were using hydrogen gas in the first place. Helium was too expensive.

[WalterBright]

The Zeppelins were funded by the government for their massive propaganda value.