ABANDONED 10,000-ROOM
NAZI HOTEL NEVER USED
G'day folks,
There is a 10,000 room beachfront hotel that no one has ever stayed at.
A hotel so huge it stretches over a staggering three miles and has 10,000 bedrooms all facing the sea. That is because this beach resort named Prora was built by the Nazis between 1936 and 1939 on Hitler’s orders. Prora lies on an extensive bay between the Sassnitz and Binz regions, known as the Prorer Wiek, on the narrow heath (the Prora) which separates the lagoon of the Kleiner Jasmunder Bodden from the Baltic Sea.
The buildings extend over a length of 4.5 kilometres and are roughly 150 metres from the beach. The coast offers a long flat sand beach, which stretches from Binz to the ferry port. This beach was thus an ideal location for the establishment of a seaside resort. During that same period, Hitler was making preparations for war which ultimately took priority, and the massive building project was never finished.
The buildings extend over a length 3 miles (5 km) and are roughly 500 feet (150 metres) from the beach.
During the few years that Prora was under construction, all major construction companies of the Reich and nearly 9,000 workers were involved in this project, but with the onset of World War II in 1939, building on Prora stopped and the construction workers transferred to weapon factories.
The eight housing blocks, the theater, and cinema stayed as empty shells, and the swimming pools and festival hall never materialized.
After the war, Prora was used as a military outpost for the East German army. But since German reunification in 1990, the buildings have stood empty.
Clancy's comment: If they'd spent less time on these sorts of things, and the holocaust, they may have been more successful in war.
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