tom gramenz swen gippa a film by stéphane riethauser - prora

PRORAAt a staggering 4,5 km in length, Prora is a former holiday camp built from 1936 to 1939 bythe Nazis. The structure is located on the Island of Rügen, just north of the Germanmainland in the Baltic Sea. Designed by Hitler-appointed architect Clemens Klotz, thismassive outlay of concrete was meant to host 20,000 people for a strictly controlledvacation. But war interrupted construction in 1939. The „Colossus of Rügen Island“ wasused as a military hospital and a refugee camp, before the Red Army took it over in 1945.Communist East Germany turned it into a military base. For almost 40 years, Prora servedas a training camp for soldiers and officers. It was abandoned shortly after the Berlin Wallcame down in 1989.Prora (Latin), πρῷρα (Greek): the prow, the bow of a ship or a vessel.www.prora-themovie.com