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	The Telegraph - Calcutta : International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Prora (Germany), May 6 (Reuters): 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.
		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.
		The whole Prora holiday package including food and accommodation was to cost between three and four Reichsmarks per person per day at most — affordable for an annual 10-day holiday given that the average wage in the mid-1930s was 150 Reichsmarks a month.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1030507/asp/foreign/story_1945339.asp (663 words)

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		Adolf Hitler commissioned the holiday camp at Prora on the Baltic island of Ruegen in the 1930s as part of the Nazis' "Kraft durch Freude" ("Strength Through Joy") program to create a healthy, strong nation capable of conquering the world.
		The eight austere concrete blocks, resembling a government ministry, were used as a shelter for bombed-out refugees during the war, and as a barracks afterwards.
		Hitler's concept behind the Prora project was to provide affordable holidays for up to 20,000 people at a time in what would have been one of the world's first mass tourist resorts.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=7454948&postID=109353873801066680 (593 words)

	Travel \| Inside the holiday camp Hitler built
		The vast Prora hotel, with its 11,000 rooms, was built on the island of Rügen to help hammer the individuality out of Germans.
		Prora was built by the German Labour Front, Hitler's Keynesian answer to mass unemployment, to provide rejuvenating package holidays for the German working class.
		Prora is the largest remaining monument to the worst of times, the flip- side of the Final Solution.
	travel.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4237602-104895,00.html (1427 words)

	prora.allinclusive
		This is how the official planning of a "Kraft durch Freude" seaside resort in Prora on the German island Rügen in the Baltic Sea began.
		Thus Prora was never used as the giant beach resort it had been planned to become.
		The use of the area by the former DDR military was a disaster for the local population as well as for the ecological environment.
	www.britthatzius.co.uk /html.prora_hamb/prora.allin.html (286 words)

	TRANS Nr. 15: Katharina Rostock (Rügen, Germany): KdF - The Proposed Seabath of the 20000 at Prora on the island ...
		KdF - The Proposed Seabath of the 20000 at Prora on the island of Rügen
		Prora is one of the existing giant projects of National Socialism and illustrates key components of the social demagogy of NS ideology.
		Prora is a symbol of the social demagogism of the nazi-regime, a symbol for the neat-outer appearance of the Third Reich.
	www.inst.at /trans/15Nr/10_5/rostock15.htm (1835 words)

	Guardian \| Mein camp
		Partly obscured by pine forest lies the hulking carcass of Prora, known locally as "the Colossus".
		Prora was built by the Nazis, and as leisure resorts go, it is both chillingly prescient and terrifyingly huge.
		Prora's design was applauded internationally, and even won the Grand Prix at the 1937 Paris World Exhibition, but despite such acclaim, it is too crudely executed to qualify as a bona fide architectural masterpiece.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5152591-110428,00.html (1640 words)

	Architectural Review, The: Bidding for Prora - vacation housing for Third Reich workers in Rugen, Germany - Marginalia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Prora, built during the Third Reich under the direction of Hitler, was designed to accommodate 20 000 holidaymakers at any one time.
		Prora, the largest executed building of the Third Reich, was designed by a favoured architect of Hitler, Clemens Klotz (1886-1961).
		The outcome caused outrage among local residents, conservationists and historians afraid the vision of Prora as leisure centre, under the management of one single investor, would be little more than a thin reworking of the original concept.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3575/is_n1179_v197/ai_17085338 (1078 words)

	Youth Festival Ties the Future to Prora's Past \| Culture & Lifestyle \| Deutsche Welle \| 25.08.2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The location of Prora had event organizers divided for a while, with one camp arguing the impossibility of using such sullied terrain for youth purposes, and the other countering decisively that the very presence of new generations would drive out the demons of the past.
		He ordered that the resort at Prora should be larger than anything of its sort, with 20,000 beds, which could, in the event of war, be used as a military hospital.
		The first of the blocks was completed towards the end of 1938, and although the shells were erected before the outbreak of war, 1939 put a rapid end to the ambitious building project.
	www.dw-world.de /popups/popup_printcontent/0,,955281,00.html (937 words)

	Gabor Osz - The Prora Project [Text]
		Prora is a geographical location on the isle of Rügen, which is situated at the northernmost point of Germany.
		This is how the formula for executing the Prora Project came about: the super-imposed images of rooms forming an endless chain along the infinite corridors.
		In this way, the method of making the Prora pictures was built into the building, with the actual space “itself” defining the coordinates of the image.
	www.gaborosz.com /en/pro_prora_text.html (1963 words)

	Unbenanntes Dokument (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The remains of the former KdF bath Prora on the Rügen Island represent a fragment of German history.
		Until today Prora appears as an alien structure in the landscape of the island.
		Proras history and vastness, its structure and its changing purposes, visons of re-usage and destruction and its perception by the locals are but a few of the substantial impulses for prora.allinclusive.
	www.luce.de /prora3/pages/project.htm (277 words)

	Dokumentationszentrum Prora - Dokumentationsausstellung
		The "Volksgemeinschaft" - a propagandistic key term describing the organisational structure of the national socialist society - is a central subject and the starting-point of a detailed analysis of the social demagogy of the NS regime.
		The exhibition sets Prora and the state-run organisation of leisure in National Socialism into the context of its overall politics thus intending to contribute to the destroying of long-living myths about National Socialism.
		The exhibition MACHTUrlaub was realised in 2003/04 with the “Programme Culture 2000” of the European Union and cooperating partners from Poland, Austria, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands.
	www.proradok.de /seiten_english/doku.html (233 words)

	Discussion Forums US - View Single Post - No Takers for Giant Nazi Vacation Hotel
		PRORA, Germany (Reuters) - Stretching along 3 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 vacation camp to ready the masses for war.
		World War II started before he could finish the resort at Prora on the Baltic island of Ruegen.
		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.
	www.discussionforums.us /forum/showpost.php?p=1765&postcount=1 (193 words)

	Mail & Guardian Online:
		Russian troops sought to destroy Prora after the Nazi defeat in 1945 but only managed to blow up one of the main eight parts of the building.
		The sweeping six-storey concrete ruins remained on one of Ruegen's most beautiful beaches and were closed off to the public with barbed wire and armed guards as a military zone of communist East Germany.
		Binz will not get involved in any way with Prora, he vows, adding that maintenance costs for keeping the ruins from collapsing are likely to be massive.
	www.mg.co.za /articledirect.aspx?area=&articleid=135868 (611 words)

	Dokumentationszentrum Prora - Kurzinformation
		Today, Prora is - both on the national and the international level - well-known as a listed monument of the construction and social history of the "Third Reich".
		Adjacent to the Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg, the KdF seaside resort in Prora is the largest architectural project of the time that was actually carried out.
		The foundation’s concern is to maintain Prora as a historical monument and to develop and utilize it in an appropriate way to its historical importance and current regional requirements.
	www.dokumentationszentrum-prora.de /seiten_english/kurzinfo.html (434 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Nazi 'Baltic Butlins' to be sold off for £86,000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Strength Through Joy holiday camp was established in the town of Prora on Rugen in the 1930s to house up to 20,000 holidaymakers who would arrive in the bay on specially designed cruise ships - a revolutionary step at a time when mass tourism was non-existent.
		Dubbed the "Colossus of Prora", it is set to be preserved forever, much to many Germans' dismay.
		Part of the Prora complex, which is said to be the longest concrete structure in the world, is being sold to developers who plan to convert one block into a Dutch-designed gleaming white youth hostel.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/09/18/wjoy18.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/09/18/ixworld.html (707 words)

	Dokumentationszentrum Prora - Sonderausstellungen
		The exhibition “Wasserlandschaften” shows a direct connection to Prora, which is situated close to the sea and is embedded into the conservation area of Prorer Heide.
		connection to Prora, which is situated close to the sea and is embedded into the conservation area of Prorer Heide.
		Prora - photo shows works of the artists Christine Schlegel and Franz Zadnicek.For years both artists have been dealing with Prora.
	www.proradok.de /seiten_english/sonder.html (1218 words)

	Tanya Ury
		A new exhibition "Always Glad to be of Service" at the Prora Documentation Centre presents six artists who have made work on the subject of forced labour and the history of industry.
		Heidi Stern and Tanya Ury made a personal appearance at Prora, together with the curator Barbara Barsch for the opening of the exhibition on Saturday.
		Ifa curator Barbara Barsch considers Prora to be a significant place where this kind of exhibition should be shown.
	www.tanyaury.com /hair_shirt/hair_press_more5.htm (387 words)

	War Museums - KDF-Bad PRORA
		The immense PRORA complex, built by the Nazis in the thirties, is 6 floors high and more than 4 kilometres long.
		In the end, not a single German worker spent his holidays in PRORA however, because war broke out in 1939 and the building was put to a halt, its builders and building materials being channelled to projects more crucial to the war effort.
		During the war, the partly finished complex was used as a training facility for (para-)military personnel and as shelter for German citizens who became homeless after the bombing of Hamburg and the Soviet invasion of East-Prussia.
	www.warmuseums.nl /gal/127gal.htm (520 words)

	CharlotteCooper.net - Travel - Hamburg - Binz - Prora 7.03 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		At four and a half kilometres, Prora is the longest building in the world, I think.
		It was built in the 1930s and intended as a holiday camp for 20,000 aryan families under the Nazi Strength Through Joy programme.
		Today much of Prora lies derelict, although parts of it house a couple of museums, some cafés and hippie artist studios.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /charlottecooper/charlotte/docs/travel/hamburg.htm (862 words)

	Journal of Social History: Fordism, mass tourism and the third reich: the "Strength through Joy" seaside ...
		Prora-Symposium,' Berlin 1994, and 'Entwicklungskonzept Prora auf Rugen,' Berlin 1997).
		The Airport was designed by Emil Sagebiel while Klotz planned the holiday town; not only was the start of the construction identical but also the basic structure: a sector of a gigantic tooth wheel, the ambiguous symbol of the machine age: Spode, "Seebad," pp.35ff.
		Historikertagung Prora,' Berlin 1998, e.g., warned of calling elements of the Third Reich "modern, progessive or attractive" without thinking of the evil "objectives" behind (Wendt, here p.56).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2005/is_1_38/ai_n6234787/pg_12 (1197 words)

	Observer \| Inside the holiday camp Hitler built
		Ironically, the only German civilians who ever stayed here were families bombed out of their homes when the RAF flattened Hamburg.
		Out of bounds to locals, Prora disap peared from East German maps.
		Nobody seems sure what the future holds for Prora.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4237602-102284,00.html (1427 words)

	Dokumentationszentrum Prora - Kurzinformation
		The Prora documentation centre is situated right in the centre of the complex next to the former theatre building (today discotheque Miami).
		You may reach the documentation centre by taking the regional train running from Stralsund to Bergen or Binz/Rügen. You can either take the train to Prora (northern station) or Prora-Ost train station.
		By car you follow the B196 (federal road) via Karow and then the B196a passing through Prora.
	www.proradok.de /seiten_english/lage.html (98 words)

	PRORA Projects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This is a funded Capital Improvement Program (CIP) project, submitted by PRORA in 1998, that will add a paved walkway along the west side of Tramway from Spain to Academy.
		The survey was conducted in the spring of 2000 -- 16 street segments within the PRORA area qualified for additional lighting.
		After polling the residents of those streets, 8 petitions for added lighting were sent to the City Traffic Department for their action.
	www.hiquality.com /projects.htm (350 words)

	Hotel Pensione La Prora Taormina Sicily Italy
		El Hotel Pensione La Prora propone sus cuartos en Taormina Sicily, Italy.
		The hotel is located near the beach, 3 km to the center and 1 Km to the cable car takes you in the centre in 3 minutes.
		Please check in before 7pm or communicate your expected time of arrival.
	www.cybevasion.com /hotels/monde/hotel_pensione-la-prora_taormina_italie_3722_es.html (99 words)

	PRORA Home Page
		PRORA district 8 board representative (see below for the PRORA districts map), 2) a historian, 3) holiday commitee chair, and 4) a Coalition representative.
		PRORA is governed by a Board of Directors made up of nine(9) adult members of the Association.
		One Director is elected from each of nine Districts (see map).
	www.hiquality.com /prora.htm (416 words)

	shrinkingcities : Initiativen + Projekte
		As a reallab, we set up a discourse on new models of European Art Academy without institutional borders, seeking for strategies of horizontal living, thinking on public geographics and exploring a spatial future for prora in ahrinking eastern german landscape.
		In tradition of art-squatting prora.allinclusive established a living and working platform for artists, designers and anarchitects which is temporarily installed in the vast debris of Prora.
		For the period of a summer an international and interdisciplinary work camp is set up in a three km long-run ruin - by nazi origin - and deals with specifics of this unique environment in an artistic manner.
	www.shrinkingcities.com /index.php?id=193&list=single&listid=27 (184 words)

	Impressum - Camping Meier - Ostseebad Binz/OT Prora auf der Insel Rügen
		Operator of this website and manager for its contents is "Camping Meier" in Prora on isle Rügen.
		The author reserves the right not to be responsible for the topicality, correctness, completeness or quality of the information provided.
		If sections or individual terms of this statement are not legal or correct, the content or validity of the other parts remain uninfluenced by this fact.
	www.camping-meier-ruegen.de /eng/impressum.htm (382 words)

	VirtualTourist.com - Prora Tips - Pictures, Tips and Reviews
		Prora: Things To Do Local time: 10:44 pm Wednesday, March 1, 2006.
		View of the "garden", on the left the colossus, on the right, beyond trees, the sea.
		Not so attractive of course due to subject and location; anyhow it's quite interesting to watch the history on tape in their small theatre.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/Germany/Land_Mecklenburg_Vorpommern/Prora-27432/Things_To_Do-Prora-R-1.html (215 words)

	Islamica Community Forums - Comment - Ruined Nazi Holiday Camp Auctioned for $769,000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Keen to plug budget holes, it then relaunched the sale, presenting Prora as suitable for a leisure complex.
		The people of Ruegen, who have restored the island's elegant 19th century resorts since communist rule ended in 1990, fear a large-scale hotel development could hurt their livelihoods.
		Hitler's concept behind the Prora project was to provide affordable holidays for up to 20,000 people at a time.
	www.islamicaweb.com /forums/showthread.php?t=23396 (361 words)

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