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there's a 10,000 room beachfront hotel
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that no one has ever stayed at a hotel
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so huge it stretches across a staggering
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3 mil and has 10,000 bedrooms all facing
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the sea that's because this beach resort
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named prora was built by the Nazis
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1939 on Hitler's orders PR lies in an
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exensive Bay between the sasnet and bins
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regions known as the pr W on the narrow
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Heath the prora which separates the
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Lagoon of the Kleiner Jes Wonder boten
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from the Baltic Sea the buildings extend
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over a length of 4 1 12 km and are
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roughly 150 M from the beach the coast
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offers a long flat sand beach which
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stretches from bins to the ferryport
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this beach was thus an ideal location
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for the establishment of a seaside
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resort during that same period Hitler
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was making preparations for war which
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ultimately took priority and the massive
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building project was never finished
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the buildings extend over a length of 3
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mil that's 5 km and a roughly 500 ft 150
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beach during the few years that peror
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was under construction all major
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construction companies of the Reich and
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nearly 9,000 workers were involved in
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project with the onset of World War II
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in 1939 building on prora stopped and
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the construction workers transferred to
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factories the eight housing blocks the
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theater and Cinema stayed as empty
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shells and the swimming pools and
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materialized during the Allied bombing
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campaign many people from Hamburg took
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refuge in one of the housing
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blocks after the war PR was used as a
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military Outpost for the East German
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Army but since German reunification in
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1990 the buildings have stood
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empty the vast complex designed to
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accommodate 20,000 visitors was part of
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the Nazis strength through Joy Croft
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program the aim was to provide leisure
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activities for German Workers and spread
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propaganda today the whole place is
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still pretty deserted except for a small
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disco locals prora the Colossus due to
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its gigantic Monumental
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structure there are hundreds of empty
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rooms with many windows smashed by
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vandals after years of debate the plan
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now is to turn prora into a modern
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holiday resort with four of the five
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blocks having been sold to private
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investors developers have a new vision
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they want to build hundreds of holiday
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apartments with cafes discos hotels
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Sports halls and swimming pools in order
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to attract thousands of
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visitors it's so Stark and overbearing
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typical of Third Reich architecture just
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walking up to it must have felt
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oppressive I can't believe that large
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complex has never had a single guest
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other than being used to House people
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during the war it'll be interesting to
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see what these new investors do with the
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buildings the history behind it might be
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a hard cell but the location of the
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hotel is pretty amazing offering a place
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for tourists to visit
