Thus, perhaps incongruously, a 400-bed youth hostel — "Europe's biggest," the mayor said — is to open here in July, occupying a part of Block 5, where Mr. Wolter and thousands of other construction soldiers were once billeted.
That, too, produced its share of pain, particularly among a small group of East Germans who used a little-known law permitting them to object to military service and were sent here as "construction soldiers" — in essence, conscientious objectors carrying shovels instead of Kalashnikov rifles.
That chronology, in fact, underpins the contest between those like Mr. Rostock who regard Prora primarily as a narrative of the Third Reich and those like Mr. Wolter, the former construction soldier, who argued that since the Nazis never made use of it, "above all, Prora is a story of East Germany".
The debate about the complex "is not only about the memory of repression" in East Germany "but also about the history of the peace movement, the creativity in the niches of East Germany, the people who said no," Stefan Wolter, a former construction soldier, said in a newspaper article last year.
Excluded from male-dominated occupations for decades, women began finding jobs as pilots, construction workers, soldiers, bankers, and bus drivers.
Costumed as macho archetypes -- construction worker, soldier, Indian brave -- and singing barely veiled gay paeans like "Y.M.C.A".
They were working-class people: soldiers, construction workers, police officers.
"Domestic violence offenders are very talented, they're very creative, they come in all shapes and forms, bankers, judges, soldiers, construction workers," Wynn said.
Miss Hsieh "pioneered the literary construction of a soldier image for women -- as imaginative as it may have been -- and thereby influenced this kind of literature in China for decades," said Charles A. Laughlin, professor of modern Chinese literature at Yale University.
If we are going to talk about modern amazons, let's apply the term more metaphorically -- to women who are out in the world tackling the traditionally male professions of soldier, construction worker, policeman or fireman.
We found that in a military setting hegemonic masculinity is embedded in the construction of a soldier identity and expression of emotion may be seen as inappropriate.
