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media about Prora

The Guardian posts article on Prora’s dark past


“Built by the Third Reich in the run-up to the second world war, the resort at Prora, on the island of Rügen, Germany, was a Nazi vision of tourism. Happy, healthy Aryans would stay and play at the 10,000-room complex on the Baltic sea, eating, swimming and even bowling for the Führer. Think Hitler’s Cancun.” Article

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Daily Mail features article on Prora’s History


“This is the 10,000-room hotel that has never had a guest. Situated on the island of Rügen in Germany, the Prora beach resort was built by Adolf Hitler between 1936 and 1939 as a striking show of Third Reich architecture. Yet the project was halted, with eight separate buildings having been erected, when the Nazi

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Gulf Times features article on Prora’s remodeling


“Known as the Colossus of Prora, the 4.5-km long complex consists of five (originally eight) identical six-storey blocks of steel-reinforced concrete designed for a total of 20,000 visitors. It was built between 1936 and 1939 by the giant Nazi leisure and tourism agency Kraft durch Freude (”Strength through Joy”) to provide German workers with an

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