Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world's hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. An imposing, austere row of buildings stretches for almost three ...

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. The Nazis ...

A HOLIDAY camp ordered to be built by Adolf Hitler to show his "soft side" has been turned into a luxury seaside resort. The coastal destination was to be the Fuhrer's gift to his followers and had ...

Some buildings have a hard time shaking their past, and when it comes to architectural relics from the Third Reich, the past becomes even harder to shake. Plans to renovate a former vacation home for ...

The Nazis built a place planned for mass tourism before the Second World War. June 22, 2012— -- In the years preceding the Second World War the Nazis not only planned mass murder, but they also ...

It has a long, white sandy beach and several miles of beautiful, unspoiled coastline, but Prora, on Germany's Baltic Sea island of Ruegen, does not feature in tourist brochures. Perhaps it's something ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There’s a beast of a building with a long, dark history on Germany’s Baltic coast. A building on the holiday ...

Planned for 20,000 guests, Hitler's monumental holiday camp complex on Rügen is a bizarre remnant. DW reporter Maike Grunwald wandered through its ruins in 2005, returned in the summer of 2019 — and ...

With estate agents waxing lyrical about the “smell of the sea, the scent of pines and panoramic views of nature” you could almost be forgiven for forgetting the sinister past of the luxury Baltic ...

A HOLIDAY camp ordered to be built by Adolf Hitler to show his “soft side” has been turned into a luxury seaside resort. The coastal destination was to be the Fuhrer’s gift to his followers and had ...

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. The Nazis ...