<div>Part of the former Nazi seaside spa serves as a hostel</div>

Berlin - Part of the former gigantic complex of seaside baths in Prora on the German island of Rügen in the Baltic Sea has transformed into one of the largest youth hostels in the country after decades of discussion and decay. This was reported today by the Reuters agency. The more than four-kilometer-long concrete colossus, built between 1936 and 1939 due to the Nazi labor movement Kraft durch Freude (Strength through Joy), stands just a few meters from the Baltic shore.
      On Monday, the hostel opened in the northernmost block of the building with 99 rooms and 418 beds for vacationers. The facility, which has no competition in the federal state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in terms of capacity, could one day, according to tagesspiegel.de, become the largest in the world.
      "Our credo is clarity instead of brown," stated hostel manager Dennis Brosseit. He made this remark alluding to the brown color as that of the Nazis.
      Some politicians have expressed concerns that some people might view the project as a celebration of Nazism. The opening of the hostel has indeed stirred excitement, among other places, on far-right websites.
      Directly below the windows stretches a long beach, and from the top floor, one can see the entire Prorer Wiek bay. The Nazis had chosen this idyllic scenery for their project Seebad der 20.000 (Seaside Baths for 20,000). The construction was initiated by Adolf Hitler himself, but it never served its recreational purpose.