Rügen
In 1935, Adolf Hitler gave the go-ahead for the construction of a megalomaniac holiday colony in Prora on the German island of Rügen.
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The German island of Rügen is right on the Baltic Sea. From here, Vladimir Lenin began his victory march to St Petersburg in 1917; in Prora, the Nazis built a megalomaniac holiday colony.
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Rügen
A monument in red granite at the former ferry port of Sassnitz betrays the passage of Vladimir Lenin.
Rügen
The remains of a Pegelturm, or water-level tower, lie at the foot of the cliffs of Cape Arkona on the German island of Rügen.
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