re: #172 Expand Your Ground

There are still a lot of people there who are very uncomfortable at any mention of that aspect of their past, and if it has to be mentioned, then in hushed, serious academic tones. A satirical or critial approach just annoys them.

I can understand that. Forget the TP, this is really going to sir some outrage…

Mein summer camp! Hitler’s Butlins-style Nazi holiday resort to become luxury hotel and apartments

A huge chunk of the largest holiday camp ever constructed by the Nazis has been sold for 2.2million.

Block One of the Colossus of Prora - built by Hitler in the 1930s along the lines of Butlins in the UK - will be converted into a 400-bed luxury hotel and 400 apartments.

The building, the single-biggest sold in post-war Germany, had a reserve price of 700,000, but telephone bidding at a Berlin auction on Saturday sent the price soaring.

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.

[puke]