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Building complex in Rügen, Germany
Photo: Ralf Roletschek, CC BY-SA 1.0 fi via Wikimedia Commons
Prora is a site on the German Baltic Sea island of Rügen. During the Nazi era the worker's organization Kraft durch Freude (Strength through Joy) began building a huge beach resort hotel for 20,000 people at the shore of the Baltic Sea. The project was almost finished when World War II started, but it was never used as a hotel. In the East German era the site was used as a military base.
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Eiscafé Prora
Youth hostel with a camping. 418 in 96 rooms.
One way to get to Prora is by car. It is situated on the eastern shore of Rügen between Binz and Sassnitz.
Read in the guideYou can get around the site by foot; however, if you want to see the whole building complex from end to end you might want to take a car or bicycle.
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