Prora was planned as racist breeding station for the blonde race during Hitler’s “Third Reich“. The memory capacity of this history in this area made this abandoned architecture unusable similar to the building complex at BEELITZ:
title=”Prora – a place with history – Explore # 126 – 9 Nov.2013″ – photo by Dietmut Teijgeman-Hansen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prora
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frizztext (German): Prora war auch als rassistische Zucht-Station geplant für die blonde Rasse … – die Erinnerung an diese Geschichte lastet bleiern auf diesem Bereich, so dass er ähnlich unverwendbar bleibt wie der Gebäude-Komplex bei Beelitz:
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What madness!
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I have never heard of such these buildings. Not much in the way of ambiance to encourage breeding…
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i wonder what Hitler would think of all of the plastic surgery going on these days that makes (or tries to make) (mostly) women look sort-of the same…
my guess is that he’d give it the thumbsup.
chilling building.
i’d renovate the crap out of it
turn it into something that creates plants, or a seed sorting facility, a solar facility i don’t know
SOMETHING positive
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I’ve never heard of it but I say demolish the thing!! it’s atrocious.
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What an ugly building for an ugly purpose!
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yes, ugly for ugly people.
Or as the comment above says with irony:
“Not much in the way of ambiance to encourage breeding…”
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I am a history teacher, and when I tell my students (in the U.S.) that such places existed they are amazed. But I have taught students from Germany who are products of Hitler’s selective breeding, and they told me this in the greatest of confidence.
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my mother Edith, living in the near of Prora, in Bergen on the island Rugen, made suicide with a rope – why not to focus on that: she gave me into an orphanage immediately after birth (als “unwertes Leben” = kind of Euthanasia concept vs. me) – I found her after 40 years of searching and made a confrontation, asking: WHY? She was a person indoctrinated by ideologies. She made suicide after the “Iron Curtain”, the Berlin Wall fell down: she was sure, that communism was a good ideology – and now it seemed, she made some wrong decisions in her life…
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me = man of constant sorrow …
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lyrics:
http://www.classic-country-song-lyrics.com/manofconstantsorrowlyricsandchords.html
G G7 C
D7 G
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G7 C
D7 G
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transformed from G major to A major:
A A7 D
I am the ma-n of constant sorrow
E7 A
I’ve seen trouble on my days
A7 D
I bid farew-ell to old Kentucky
E7 A
The place where I was born and raised
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die Gebäude von Prosa strahlen die Traurigkeit der Geschichte aus. Das Video, das Du hinzugefügt hast ist aber sehr anschaulich, macht die Geschichte aber nicht weniger traurig. Geniesse das Wochenende, Dietmut
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How does a mind get to working like that. Incredible!
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Incredible in each direction
I have never heard of it
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It’s always the question with dictatorships : What to do from their “creations”…. Sometimes it becomes a museum, a memorial, sometimes it’s destroyed. Prora is also an heritage of Eugenics, and all the theories that ware usual in Europe and USA during the early 20th century. In USA, there were laws even in the 70s for Eugenics and race selection in some states.
But it was also a “social icon” for the Nazis like ….autobahn, the Volkswagen. I think there are also such building in Russia, build by Stalin for russian workers, as dictators built also hospital as concentration camps, goulags….I don’t think Prora is now very usable and I understand it’s not easy to decide what to do with it.
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