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Last survivor of the Hindenburg disaster dies at age 90

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Elderberry:
NAVY Times by  Kathy McCormack 11/16/2019

The last remaining survivor of the Hindenburg disaster, who suffered severe burns to his face, arms and legs before his mother managed to toss him and his brother from the burning airship, has died.

Werner Gustav Doehner, the last among 62 passengers and crew who escaped the May 6, 1937 fire, was 90.

The fire killed his father, sister and 34 others. He was just 8 years old at the time.

“He did not talk about it,” his son Bernie Doehner said, adding that his father took him years later to visit the naval station where the disaster happened but not the Hindenburg memorial itself. “It was definitely a repressed memory. He lost his sister, he lost his dad.”

A church service was held Friday for Werner Doehner, who died on Nov. 8 at a hospital in Laconia, New Hampshire.

More: https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/11/16/last-survivor-of-the-hindenburg-disaster-dies-at-age-90/

Wingnut:

Ruhe in Frieden, Werner Gustav Doehner.

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