"The Colossus !!!!!" Prora by mauro_pd

Prora Travel Guide: 24 reviews and 68 photos

Prora is actually a very small village with no real touristic spots ... but ... Mr. Hitler built here an enormous "hotel" to receive 20.000 people together for holidays at that time. This building is called Colossus of Prora.
In this page you can see some pics of it.

"The town of Prora and the "Colossus of Rügen" - originally intended as a seaside resort of the Nazi organisation "Kraft durch Freude" (KdF) - have become well-known during the past few years and are now a must for everyone visiting the island of Rügen. Prora near Binz lies on Prorer Wiek, the most beautiful bay on the island. Here, between 1936 and 1939, the "Kraft durch Freude"-organisation constructed - and mostly finished - the several-kilometre-long complex of buildings that were to form the resort."

Excerpt from:
www.dokumentationszentrum-prora.de

Visit the site for a comprehensive documentation set

Pros and Cons

Pros:A deep swim into reality
Cons:Sad
In a nutshell:A good example of what happened just 50 years ago

Last visit to Prora: Apr 2003
Intro Updated Jun 3, 2003
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Reviews (3)

The garden Things to Do (3)

View of the "garden", on the left the colossus, on the right, beyond trees, the sea. more travel advice

Fragment of history Things to Do (3)

Reading this panel is enough, I do not add any other words. more travel advice

Museum Things to Do (3)

Not so attractive of course due to subject and location; anyhow it's quite interesting to watch the history on tape in... more travel advice

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Comments (4)

Bwana_Brown Apr 7, 2009 at 6:06 PM Report Abuse

Very interesting - I had never heard of this place before! Thanks for the information.
calcaf38 Mar 29, 2009 at 12:02 PM Report Abuse

How bizarre. Thank you for sharing!
alancollins Nov 17, 2007 at 1:02 PM Report Abuse

One of those places on my list of WW2 sites to visit...I made it to Prora in June, one of those strange surreal places.
HORSCHECK Oct 11, 2003 at 12:40 PM Report Abuse

Gorgeous photos of this impressive building ... A few years ago there was a kind of youth hostel in one part of the building. Unfortuantely it was closed, but it was a nice experience to "smell" the building ... :o)