I went to the Zeppelin museum on lake Konstanz today and went in a reconstruction of the Hindenburg. One of the exhibits stated that the dining room used Bauhaus designs. But there's a lot of stuff on how the Zeppelin programming was essentially controlled by the Nazis and used for propaganda purposes - so why would they use Bauhaus designs, considered degenerate by the regime? Thanks!
The Interiors of LZ 129, or the Hindenburg, were designed by the famous architect Fritz August Breuhaus de Groot. The surviving records indicate the original designs for the interior of the Hindenberg were created several years prior to 1933, when the Bauhaus was shut down. The original drafts for the Hindenburg were probably created around the same time as when he designed the luxury passenger ship Bremen, sometime between 1923 and 1926.
I know what you are thinking, the Hindenburg was not built until 1936! Why did they not change the designs? Well, despite Bauhaus design being considered degenerate by the elite cultural purists, in the 1930s the broad based fame of Fritz outweighed the government's cultural concerns. He continued to receive other work from the government, but was eventually overshadowed by Speer's quickly rising popularity and more ideologically pleasing designs. The Nazi party generally distrusted Fritz on ideological grounds, but were more than willing to use his name when it suited their purposes. Despite the degenerate classification of Bauhaus design in general by the Nazi Party, they continued to construct buildings and ships which incorporated Bauhaus elements due to its ongoing popularity and relatively simple design elements.
One more thing to consider: weight. The Bauhaus style naturally lends itself to an environment where weight is at a premium. Even if someone had wanted to create a more "ideologically pleasing" design, there would have been serious engineering constraints in doing so.