A Tropical Theme Park in the Former E. Germany

NPR | By Emily Harris

Published January 10, 2005 at 12:00 AM EST

NPR's Emily Harris reports on an airport hangar in the former East Germany, once used for technologically advanced cargo shipping scheme that went belly up, now converted into a theme park called Tropical Islands Resort.

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