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 ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world's hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. An imposing, austere row of buildings stretches for almost three ...

The Nazis built a place planned for mass tourism before the Second World War. June 22, 2012— -- In the years preceding the Second World War the Nazis not only planned mass murder, but they also ...

Planned for 20,000 guests, Hitler's monumental holiday camp complex on Rügen is a bizarre remnant. DW reporter Maike Grunwald wandered through its ruins in 2005, returned in the summer of 2019 — and ...

THE former Nazi leader had a grand vision for a budget holiday resort by the sea. Here it is, and it ain’t pretty. Prora, a seaside mega-resort on the east German island of Rugen, was intended as a ...

There's been plenty written about the world's tallest and oldest buildings. But what about the longest? Excluding walls and fortifications (otherwise the Great Wall of China, at 8.8 million metres, ...

More than 75 years after Adolph Hitler's commissioned a dream tourist destination nestled near the Baltic Sea, the Nazi-era resort has been redeveloped for the general public. Prora, which is located ...

A huge chunk of the largest holiday camp ever constructed by the Nazis has been sold for £2.2million. Block One of the Colossus of Prora - built by Hitler in the 1930s along the lines of Butlins in ...

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 ...

With estate agents waxing lyrical about the “smell of the sea, the scent of pines and panoramic views of nature” you could almost be forgiven for forgetting the sinister past of the luxury Baltic ...