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Airship attacks were strategic raids. The assigned tatgets were military, docks, factories, railroad yards,etc. Of course, the accuracy of these bombing raids wasn't very good and many civilian targets were hit, but that was also the case for fixed wing strategic bombing by both sides. An airship was like a boxer with a glass jaw - one hit in the wrong place and it blew up. The Germans relegated them to maritime reconnaissiance, where the defences were less. (In WW II the US Navy tried to keep the lighter than air craft away from the Luftwaffe, too).
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