When the Hindenburg caught fire, Mr. Doehner’s mother dropped him and his brother from the cabin window before jumping out herself. His father died at the scene and his sister died later at a hospital. Mr. Doehner almost never talked about the disaster, his father or his sister, Bernie Doehner said, but he took him to Lakehurst once when he was an adolescent. “The naval commander was nice enough to show us around, but there wasn’t really much there,” Bernie Doehner said. “I don’t remember my dad saying much.”Werner Gustav Doehner was born on March 14, 1929, in Darmstadt, Germany, to Hermann and Matilde Doehner.

Source: New York Times November 17, 2019 01:30 UTC