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Old 05-06-2003, 08:13 AM   #1
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http://xtramsn.co.nz/travel/0,,8425-2343317,00.html

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Stretching along three miles of one of Germany's best beaches lies the biggest hotel the world never saw - a forbidding hulk of 10,000 rooms built by Adolf Hitler as a holiday camp to ready the masses for war.

World War Two started before he could finish the resort at Prora on the Baltic island of Ruegen. But the scale of what was completed illustrates Hitler's megalomania more forcefully than other famous surviving Nazi structures such as Berlin's Olympic stadium or the derelict site of the Nuremberg rallies.

Locals call it the "Colossus of Prora", now a crumbling concrete complex that stands deserted bar a few museums, a ramshackle cafe and a disco - a huge blight on a coast otherwise lined with upmarket, old-fashioned resorts.

"It was one of the biggest National Socialist building projects to be realised," said Uwe Schwartz, who works in a local museum about Prora. "Hitler planned to build five of them."

Prora was designed to provide cheap holidays for 20,000 people in one go and was part of the Nazis' "Kraft durch Freude" ("Strength Through Joy") programme - an early form of mass tourism.


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Jews were not allowed.


why doesn't that surprise me?

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The building is ugly and needs investment.


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Old 05-06-2003, 08:16 AM   #2
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I didn't even know Germany had beaches to begin with.
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Old 05-06-2003, 10:34 AM   #3
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isnt germany located in the middle or surrounded by land in europe? checks the map again.
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Old 05-06-2003, 10:45 AM   #4
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isnt germany located in the middle or surrounded by land in europe? checks the map again.
At the time, following the annexation of Poland, Germany definately did have ocean access (it was pretty much the whole point of the annexation). Not sure about now though, borders get redrawn pretty extensively after any major war.
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Old 05-06-2003, 10:54 AM   #5
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I was born in Bremerhaven, which at the time was a NAVAL base... Now how do you expect the navy to be there without a port? Germany's northern edge borders the sea and even the english channel, just like how france and belgium open up to the sea on their northen coasts.
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