In this video, James Perloff challenges the official explanation that static electricity sparked a fire in the hydrogen-filled Hindenburg Zeppelin on May 6, 1937, killing 35 people. He presents an alternative account from intelligence newsletter writer Hilaire du Berrier, based on testimony by Boston sporting goods dealer Tim McAuliffe, who claimed that major league catcher and OSS spy Moe Berg—a multilingual Jewish Zionist—confided in him days before the disaster that "we had to do something" to provoke Hitler into attacking the U.S. Berg allegedly planned the sabotage (using incendiary bullets fired by associates), boasting afterward at a restaurant. Perloff supports this with Berg's documented pre-WWII espionage activities (like secretly filming Japanese installations), the lack of footage capturing the fire's ignition, German intelligence suspicions of foul play, and parallels to other alleged false-flag events. He questions why Berg's spy background and this story are omitted from mainstream biographies, portraying the incident as a deliberate act to escalate tensions toward war rather than an accident.
