Alongside a wide, sandy beach on the German island of Rügen in the Baltic Sea stands the world’s biggest hotel. A hotel so huge it stretches over a staggering three miles and has 10,000 bedrooms all facing the sea.
Surprisingly even though this beach resort was built more than 70 years ago, not a single guest has ever stayed there. That is because this beach resort named Prora was build by the Nazis between 1936 and 1939 on Hitler’s orders.
During that same period, Hitler was making preparations for war which ultimately took priority, and the massive building project was never finished.
Prora lies on an extensive bay between the Sassnitz and Binz regions, known as the Prorer Wiek, on the narrow heath (the Prora) which separates the lagoon of the Kleiner Jasmunder Bodden from the Baltic Sea.
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