Three years before Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Adolf Hitler ordered the construction of the world's largest tourist resort, located on a beachfront property on the island of Rügen.
The Nazis called it Prora.
Capable of holding more than 20,000 residents at a single time, Prora was meant to comfort the weary German worker who toiled away in a factory without respite.
According to historian and tour guide Roger Moorhouse, it was also meant to serve as the carrot to the stick of the Gestapo — a pacifying gesture to get the German people on Hitler's side.
But then World War II began, and Prora's construction stalled — until now.
The rest of the article (lots of pictures): http://www.businessinsider.com/adolf-hitler-nazi-resort-prora-2016-8/#in-1936-germany-was-still-enmeshed-in-the-concept-of-peoples-community-or-volksgemeinschaft-from-world-war-i-it-was-a-sense-that-germans-stood-united-no-matter-what-1
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LawyerLady
I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.
Personally, I think it would be a shame to let things rot just b/c they were started by Hitler. They need to be reclaimed and taken back from the Nazis and turned into something good.
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LawyerLady
I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.
But I am surprised it wasn't leveled after the war.
It's a good concept and the renderings are good.
I'd live there.
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