There was a pretty good writeup someone posted here (maybe you) not long ago explaining precisely that, and it was rather compelling. The evidence for sabotage was circumstantial (expected whenever you try to investigate something 100 years after the fact) but the fact that the tragedy was largely invented and accelerated by media propagandists - as they do with everything - is without question. I believe the clip was actually fake/broadcast before the actual casualty numbers were known. Then it was spliced together with later footage in newsreels shown at the theater to kill the airship industry.
There was a pretty good writeup someone posted here (maybe you) not long ago explaining precisely that, and it was rather compelling. The evidence for sabotage was circumstantial (expected whenever you try to investigate something 100 years after the fact) but the fact that the tragedy was largely invented and accelerated by media propagandists - as they do with everything - is without question. I believe the clip was actually fake/broadcast before the actual casualty numbers were known. Then it was spliced together with later footage in newsreels shown at the theater to kill the airship industry.
Can't have the Kaiser's Eyes in the Sky floating over the Channel now can we?
Sounds interesting, could you send me the link to that post? I have never thought of that before.