Inside Adolf Hitler's German beach resort that has never had a single guest after being abandoned 75 years ago
The monumental seaside resort of Prora in Rügen was built by the Nazis between 1936 and 1939
75년간 단 한 사람도 다녀간 적이 없는 나찌 독일의 잔재 프로라 해변리조트
무려 10,000개의 방이 있다.
1936~1939년까지 건설된 이 리조트는 2차대전 후 소련이 폭파하려고 했으나
다이나마이트 부족으로 포기했다.
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Prora was supposed to showcase the best of Third Reich architecture Yet Hitler pulled the plug on the project before it was finished to focus on the war effort After the war the Soviets planned to blow the site up - but didn't have enough dynamite Plans afoot to build a 300-room hotel, with other spaces being sold as flats German resort was Hitler's idea of a 'Baltic Butlins' - a space for family fun and entertainment
발틱해의 해안선을 따라 부드러운 곡선을 그리고 있는 클레멘스 클로츠(1886~1969년)의 이 거대한 건물은 독일에서 나치 정부가 건설한 것으로는 유일하게 오늘날까지 남아 있는 건축물이다. 이쪽 끝에서 반대쪽 끝까지 길이가 4.4킬로미터에 이르는, 완공된 지 75년이 지난 오늘날에도 유럽에서 가장 긴 건물이다.
2만 명의 인원을 동시에 수용할 수 있는 해변 리조트로 설계되었으나 전쟁의 발발로 인해 단 한 번도 사용되지 못했다. '독일 노동자들을 위한 해변 리조트'라는 광고대로, 프로라 리조트는 독일의 북부 해안에 기획된 다섯 개의 거대한 국영 캠프장 중 첫 번째였다. 이 프로젝트를 주도한 것은 KdF 프로그램(Kraft durch Freude, 환희를 통한 힘)으로, 나치의 주요 인사인 로베르트 레이 박사가 그 리더였다. KdF 프로그램은 여가와 노동의 세계를 일치시킴으로써 심지어 휴가 도중에도 독일 노동자를 제어하고, 교화하는 것이 그 목적이었다.
이 전례가 없는 새로운 건축물은 1936년 5월 2일, 독립 무역 조합 운동의 진압 3주년 기념행사 때 개관하였다(레이는 이 진압 작전에서 결정적인 역할을 수행하였다). 이전까지는 조그만 마을에 불과했는데 철도와 역이 생기고 한 농장에서 신선한 식료를 제공하기로 결정되었다. 또한 KdF의 가장 유명한 걸작인 폴크스바겐(Volkswagen, 독일어로 '국민차'라는 뜻)을 위한 대규모 지하 주차장도 있었다.
해안에는 KdF 크루즈 여객선을 위한 독 시설이 있어 노동자들을 태우고 노르웨이의 피요르드를 도는 관광 프로그램도 제공했다. 그 밖에도 영화관, 수영장, 공회당, 집회장 등이 계획되었다. 모든 객실은 2.5×5미터의 동일한 규격으로, 두 사람이 함께 쓰기에는 너무 작다. 방은 모두 스피커 시스템에 연결되어 있으며, 넓은 실내 산책장으로 개방되어 있다. 건물을 지은 이데올로기를 체현하고 있는 불길하고 단조로운 건축물이다.
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By John Hutchinson for MailOnline
This is the 10,000-room hotel that has never had a guest.
Situated on the island of Rügen in Germany, the Prora beach resort was built by Adolf Hitler between 1936 and 1939 as a striking show of Third Reich architecture.
Yet the project was halted, with eight separate buildings having been erected, when the Nazi leader decided to focus on building more planes and war infrastructure. Scroll down for video
Hitler pulled the plug when the job was half done as he decided it was more important to pump resources into the war effort
Prora was constructed on the Baltic island of Ruegen by the stormtroopers of the Nazi 'Strength Through Joy' leisure organisation over a six-year period and occupies nearly three miles of beachfront.
It was meant to provide holiday entertainment for 20,000 of Hitler's hordes at any one time. But not a single Nazi ever got to stay there.
The 'Colossus of Prora' was thought to have been Hitler's Nazi equivalent to Butlins, who began developing their holiday camps in 1936 throughout the UK. It was to be Hitler's reward to the workers who had toiled long hours for the Third Reich - a bucket-and-spade resort and fun for all the family.
It was occupied after 1945 by the Red Army and became a top-secret Soviet base.
After the war, the Soviets considered blowing it up, but discovered they didn't have enough dynamite for the job.
Instead they turned it into a massive tank-and-artillery base for the People's Army of East Germany and it vanished from all maps.
It is hoped a number of rooms will be sold to the elderly, while there are plans to build a smaller hotel on site
The hotel resort was meant to show off the class of Third Reich architecture - sadly it's been left to ruin
Prora was supposed to be the frontrunner of the Nazi's 'Strength Through Joy' leisure programme
A museum at the site chronicles the history of Prora which, aside from the building of the Atlantic Wall of coastal fortifications stretching from Norway to the border of Spain - intended to thwart any Allied landings in occupied Europe - was Hitler's biggest building project.
The Nazis viewed leisure as just one more aspect of human activity to be governed by the party.
The resort was meant to show off all the attributes Nazi leader Hitler wanted the people of Germany to demonstrate
Prora was destined to be the forerunner of a string of such giant camps whose plans were mothballed due to the war he unleashed on the world.
The site is currently being sold off and renovated, in the hopes it will one day again be home to tens of thousands of people. Some of the buildings will be marketed as homes for the elderly, others luxury apartments, and still others as a 300 room hotel.
Nazi white elephants that have been left to rot in Germany
From buildings built by the Nazis to ornate theatres, burnt out hotels and eerie sanatoriums, these are the abandoned buildings that still litter the powerhouse of Europe.
Photographer Daniel Barter, 30, from London travelled to the German capital Berlin and the surrounding countryside to capture buildings in need of work on film.
Far from being resplendent in vintage glory, the deserted music venues and crumbling hospitals are a shadow of their former selves. .
An abandoned former Hitler Youth Training School pictured by British photographer Daniel Barter, 30, from London
A lecture hall at the former Hitler Youth training school
Pictured here is an abandoned theatre that has not seen a show for years
The arches around a courtyard inside the old sanatorium daubed with graffiti
The Eagle and Iron Cross mural at Krampnitz Kaserne, a military complex, in Fahrland, Potsdam, created by the Germans during the rearmament period
A barber's chair in a manor house that once acted as a sanatorium is left to rot
A gym/basketball court at Krampnitz Kaserne. The 35th Guards Motor Rifle Division was then stationed there until its abandonment in 1992, after the Soviet Union dissolved dailymail
