"AND I'LL BE HERE TO GREET THEM WHEN THEY COME!"
Posted on 08/26/2015 3:19:37 PM PDT by tcrlaf
Okay...they didn’t say anything about that in the documentary. :) I’ll have to go find the name of it...think I watched it on Netflix.
I could see the liberals doing it to us in a heartbeat, their sheep would go right along with it.
The Amber Room may be on that train.
I have to say, based on looking at the photo on Wikipedia, that I do not like the Amber Room. Appreciate the work that went into it, but I could not stand to stay in it for more than 2 minutes. Too much going on there for my taste.
They know without a doubt if they accurately teach history then their support would fade away.
I was shocked when my daughters were in high school (15 years ago) that the Vietnam War had only a paragraph in their History text book. I think World War II had one page.
What people wrote about it is that it was dazzling to the eyes and senses in that the sun, reflected light and candle light would hit the room in certain ways that when walking in it the amber would glisten and sparkle in such a way to appear that the room was alive and moving.
It was also full of carvings that tell a long history. So it’s a jewel, an art, a book and a wonder all at once.
I guess one has to see it to understand why people went on about it so much.
Confirmed: Long-Lost Nazi Loot Train Found In Poland
Officials in Walbrzych, Poland confirm a mysterious Nazi train has been found, but don’t know what it contains
http://www.popularmechanics.com/adventure/news/a17087/confirmed-nazi-loot-train-found/
Certainly a good web search would describe the Amber Room to the curious far better than my attempts.
I would guess it was hard to find enough amber and enough artisans to carve it for the modern reproduction.
Would not be surprised if the original is hidden in a secret room in the Kremlin or in one of Putin’s dachas.
You know, the painting in Madrid reminds me of something I heard years ago. One of the reasons Hitler and his bankers launched the Austrian, Czech and then Polish invasions when they did was from running out of foreign exchange currency for their overseas purchases. They seized the cash and gold reserves of every invaded nation and then made the occupied use scrip or Reichmarks. Oil, rubber, tungsten, aluminum,food and so forth had to be procured from somewhere. Besides currency and gold they could peddle artwork to wealthy foreign collectors.
BTW, I sure hope that the new Amber Room is real amber and not painted plaster or something.
I don’t exactly see people like Yeltsin or Putin being on a George Washington level of honesty.
Fixed it. :-)
Except for the valuables George Soros was allowed to keep as payment for fingering his fellow Jews to the Nazis in Hungary.
Thank you.
I’m with you. Retro aristocracy bling. Ornament is obsolete
Note: this topic is from 8/26/2015. Thanks tcrlaf.
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