Zeppelin: The First Blitz Timewatch : Season 26 Episode 5
BBC Two 50m
Aired: February 2nd, 2007 @ 9:00 PM EST on BBC Two
Long before World War II, in WWI in fact, Germany began the world's first strategic bombing campaign. In an attempt to demoralize the people of Britain, in early 1915 a German zeppelin airship dropped bombs on the Norfolk town of Great Yarmouth. It was the start of a campaign lasting two-and-a-half years which killed 1,500 people. Timewatch reexamines the forgotten Blitz.
