Bad Wolf
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http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/1...ise-rises-anew-poking-at-germanys-old-wounds/
"Built by the Third Reich in the run-up to World War II, the Strength Through Joy resort was a Nazi vision of tourisms future. Happy, healthy Aryans would stay and play at the 10,000-room complex on the Baltic Sea, eating, swimming and even bowling for the Führer. Think Hitlers Cancun.
But 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the complex nicknamed the Colossus of Prora is part of a growing debate in modern Germany that pits commercialism against Vergangenheitsbewältigung or the German word for how the country should come to terms with its dark past."
"Built by the Third Reich in the run-up to World War II, the Strength Through Joy resort was a Nazi vision of tourisms future. Happy, healthy Aryans would stay and play at the 10,000-room complex on the Baltic Sea, eating, swimming and even bowling for the Führer. Think Hitlers Cancun.
But 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the complex nicknamed the Colossus of Prora is part of a growing debate in modern Germany that pits commercialism against Vergangenheitsbewältigung or the German word for how the country should come to terms with its dark past."
