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Hitler’s holiday camp: how the sprawling resort of Prora met a truly modern fate
Having stood for decades as a relic of Nazi hubris, the immense site of the ‘Strength Through Joy’ camp at Prora is being redeveloped and will soon serve its original purpose – housing holidaymakers
The Prora resort on the Isle of Rügen under construction in 1939.
The Prora resort on the Isle of Rügen under construction in 1939.
Owen Hatherley
Monday 6 November 2017 07.30 GMT
Last modified on Monday 6 November 2017 08.38 GMT
“You’d have thought there would have been a big hall or something,” declares an disappointed American voice on leaving the Prora Documentation Centre, a museum on the edge of a half-disused, half-renovated holiday camp in north-east Germany. What he was hoping for, in the largest single surviving remnant of the Third Reich, is some hint of the past. But there is little of that here today.