Business Insider "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.
What began as drab Nazi socialist architecture here:
The Nazis called it Prora.
"Capable of holding more than 20,000 residents at a single time, Prora was meant to comfort the weary German worker who toiled away in a factory without respite.
"According to historian and tour guide Roger Moorhouse, it was also meant to serve as the carrot to the stick of the Gestapo — a pacifying gesture to get the German people on Hitler's side.
"But then World War II began, and Prora's construction stalled — until now. " . . .
What began as drab Nazi socialist architecture here:
Became a capitalist renewal:
. . . "The structure, conceived right on the brink of global chaos, could end up flopping a second time, tainted by its first failed vision."
Hat tip to Jeff Hayden; Plano, TX
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