How do we deal with the buildings of the past?
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Additional footage and images courtesy of Copterdrone, Jörn Tirgrath, DW, Thomas Overberg, Dokumentationszentrum Prora, Berlin-Brandenburg Economic Archive: U5/3 Image archive of Philipp Holzmann AG/ Main Association of the German Construction Industry eV, Prora Solitaire.
Research sources:
Baedeker SMART Reiseführer Rügen
https://www.ndr.de/geschichte/schauplaetze/Der-Koloss-von-Ruegen-Groessenwahn-der-Nazis-in-Prora,prora113.html
Evening Standard – 28/04/1999, p.37
The Observer – 29/12/1996, p.3
The Guardian – 23/11/2002, p.20
Sunday Telegraph – 28/3/1999, p.36
https://www.architectmagazine.com/design/remaking-a-onetime-nazi-resort_o
Klaus Winands: Der Denkmalschutz Status des ehemaligen KdF-Bades Prora und seine Begründung
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00:00 – Intro
00:58 – Rügen
01:24 – Prora
02:43 – Construction
03:14 – Post WW2
04:30 – Legacies
05:19 – The GDR
06:03 – Initial Plans
06:57 – Redevelopment Starts
08:00 – Redesign
09:13 – Prora Today
09:47 – Controversy
10:40 – Mixed Opinions
11:13 – Reconciling the Past
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