Plans to build a new leisure centre at the site of an old Nazi health resort have sparked outrage across Germany. Protesters believe the proposal is a sick reminder of the country’s dark past and say it amounts to finishing off the Nazi’s work.

But the local authority in Germany’s largest island of Rugen, in the Baltic Sea, says that is all in the past – and that the new sports facility means they are looking to the future.

It has recently found investors and is ready to finish building and create a new family resort there.

The original project was masterminded by the Nazi ‘Power Through Health’ initiative in 1936. PTH was responsible for creating the leisure and fitness activities of ‘true Aryans’.

Click on the image to see the panoramic view of the site

Their initial plans involved constructing four huge playgrounds on the Baltic Sea shore.

However, the outbreak of World War Two put a halt to the project. None of them were ever completed and only the empty shells of the buildings remain of those once extensive plans.

During the Cold War the buildings were used by the Soviet Army.