MECKLB.-VORPOMMERN

KdF Resort Prora (Koloss von Rügen)
Location: eastcoast of the island Rügen; north of the village of Binz and the Schmachter See runs the Prorarer Chausse paralell to the Prora complex; when you’re headed north, streets like the Strandstrasse and the Südstrasse lead to the complex, and so does the Mukraner Strasse
Today: still there
The largest nazibuilding that’s still standing is on the island of Rügen. The NS-organisation Kraft durch Freude (KdF) arranged vacations for the working class in Germany. In 1935 the plans for five seaside resorts were presented. Hitler himself had the idea to built the largest resort there had ever been. (Other large nazi buildings that were not destroyed are the Parteitagsgelände in Nürnberg and Göring’s Airforce Administration in Berlin. The only real Hitler administration building that’s still there is the Führerbau in München.)

There is not much information available on the internet about Hitler in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Local archives must have more than we can present here at this time. We’re looking forward to receiving more information. Tips concerning good (local) literature with information about Hitler visiting Mecklenburg-Vorpommern are very welcome. Please send us an e-mail. In the meantime we’ll keep on looking.

Grave Wilhelm Gustloff
Location:unknown but probably on the Alter Friedhof on the Obotritenring
Wilhelm Gustloff was the leader of the NSDAP in Switzerland. He was killed in 1936. Hitler was at the state funeral of Gustloff. He was burried in Schwerin. After his death a factory near concentration camp Buchenwald was called the Gustloff-Werke. There also was a cruise ship called the Wilhelm Gustloff. It was used by the Kriegsmarine at the end of the war. In 1945 a Soviet submarine sunk the ship in the Baltic waters.

Election speeches 1932
Location: unknown
During election campagnes in 1932 Hitler came to Rostock twice. Rostock is also known for the Heinkel-Werke that were there. The ruïns of the airplane factories are still there.

Attempted murder of Hitler
Location: near Stralsund, exact location unknown
In the month of June 1932 there was an ambush planned to kill Hitler somewhere near Stralsund. Hitlers car was shot at. The offenders were never found.

Speech Hitler 1932
Location: unknown
On Juli 19, 1932 Hitler was going to do a speech in Stralsund. Social Democrats gathered in Negast, because they thought Hitler would travel through the village. In a vacation camp were armed enemies of Hitler hiding for the police. The crowd got together to protect the camp from the police. Shots were fired and a teacher called Krull was killed.

Lazaret Pasewalk
Pasewalk is a town north of Berlin, near the sea and the border of Poland, the exact location of the lazarett we don’t know yet
Today: not sure
At the end of the war Hitler was in a lazarett or hospital in Pasewalk. The most accurate discription of it is Reservelazaret Pasewalk. There is a private hospital in Pasewalk that used to be the Kreiskrankenhaus on the Prenzlauer Chaussee 30. If it’s got anything to do with Hitler, we don’t know.

Bad Doberan was the first city that made Adolf Hitler it’s honorary citizen in August 1932. In 2007 the city took this honour away from Hitler.

Seaside resort on the Baltic Sea, part of the town Bad Doberan
Location: on the turn of the Kühlungsbornerstrasse, near the beach
Today: some of Heiligendamm's buildings were demolished and replaced. After the German reunification investors bought most of the buildings. A company called the Kempinski Grand Hotel uses six historical buildings. Again some of the buildings were demolished.
Hitler and Goebbels spend a short holiday together in Heiligendamm.

Luftwaffenerprobungsplatz Müritzen
Location: not sure; there’s a lake in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern with the name Müritzer; in the village Rechlin on the Lindenstrasse is the Test Airfield Laerz, but if that’s the one, is not sure
On July 3, 1939 Hitler visited the Luftwaffenerprobungsplatz Müritzen.

Throwing stones at Hitler
Location: unknown
A story from the early period of the NSDAP tells that when people threw stones at Hitlers car in Freiburg, Hitler jumped out of the car, waving his whip. The astonished crowd got out of the way.

Herzberg Estate
Location: Herzberg is a village norteast of Parchim, exact location unknown
Today: unsure, but it looks like it’s still there
Martin Bormann served the Von Treuenfels as a supervisor of the the estate Herzberg near Parchim from 1920 untill 1926. In 1927 Bormann joins the NSDAP.

Gut Severin
Location: near Parchim, exact location unknown
Today: not sure
Goebbels married the former wife of industrial Quandt in 1932 on the estate of minister-president of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Granzow (the brother of Goebbels wife). Hitler was a witness to this marriage.