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Could Long-Lost Amber Room Be Stashed in a Nazi Bunker in Poland?
The New York Times ^ | 10 June 2016 | Rick Lyman

Posted on 06/20/2016 7:01:27 PM PDT by Theoria

There is perhaps no lost-treasure mystery more seductive than that of the priceless Amber Room of Peter the Great, which disappeared in the chaotic closing hours of World War II. Now Bartlomiej Plebanczyk, an unassuming historian and museum director in northeastern Poland, believes he has found it.

Elderly villagers told Mr. Plebanczyk that they had seen a German convoy unloading big crates into a secret chamber in a stark, moss-covered Nazi bunker near the Russian border in early 1945. So the Mamerki Museum, whichhe leads, recently completed a ground-penetrating radar scan of the derelict bunker that he said confirmed the existence of a hidden chamber.

“This is the perfect place to hide something if you have to move it quickly out of eastern Prussia,” Mr. Plebanczyk said.

Poles are used to hearing extravagant tales of lost war loot, and also to hearing the tales debunked. Last year, two men claimed to have found a buried train containing Nazi gold, but an investigation found no such thing. Despite that, war-treasure hunting is such a popular pastime in Poland that enthusiasts have their own web forum.

The Amber Room is a singular treasure. It was originally completed in the 18th century in a palace near St. Petersburg, Russia, paneled with six tons of precious amber, elaborately carved and decorated with gold. After advancing German troops captured the palace in 1941, the 600-square-foot room was dismantled and carted off to Königsberg Castle in East Prussia, where it was later exposed to British bombs and Soviet shells. Berlin sent orders in January 1945 to evacuate high-value cultural items from the castle, but what happened after has never been clear.

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: amber; amberroom; bartlomiejplebanczyk; germany; godsgravesglyphs; konigsbergcastle; lookbackinamber; mamerkimuseum; nazi; ntsa; peterthegreat; poland; ricklyman; russia; treasure; ww2
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1 posted on 06/20/2016 7:01:27 PM PDT by Theoria
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To: SunkenCiv

not a train, ping.


2 posted on 06/20/2016 7:01:45 PM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: Theoria

For later.


3 posted on 06/20/2016 7:03:31 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Theoria

Didn’t it go up in smoke ?


4 posted on 06/20/2016 7:03:43 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Theoria

If it’s there I hope the bunker is not full of water.


5 posted on 06/20/2016 7:04:29 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: butlerweave

Paging Indiana Jones...


6 posted on 06/20/2016 7:05:17 PM PDT by freepertoo
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To: Theoria

Did Hillary visit there while she was Sec of State?


7 posted on 06/20/2016 7:05:19 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Theoria

I didn’t know that the train discovery was a hoax.


8 posted on 06/20/2016 7:13:42 PM PDT by gop4lyf (Gay marriage is neither.)
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To: Theoria

It’s probably somewhere in the Kremlin.


9 posted on 06/20/2016 7:16:00 PM PDT by aomagrat (Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
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To: Theoria
Despite that, war-treasure hunting is such a popular pastime in Poland...

One epi of that meteorite hunters show had them in Poland. In searching for iron meteorites in one area, they came up with a bunch of stuff, aka shrapnel, etc., that was the remains of a WWI battle.

10 posted on 06/20/2016 7:19:40 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: aomagrat

Bet you Soros has it.


11 posted on 06/20/2016 7:25:12 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Theoria

I can hear the Indiana Jones music in the background...


12 posted on 06/20/2016 7:28:23 PM PDT by max americana (fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
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To: Theoria

Amber burns. The amber from the amber room probably burned in 1945.


13 posted on 06/20/2016 8:09:05 PM PDT by fso301
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To: fso301

Sadly, yes...the most recent research (conducted after the Iron Curtain fell and Soviet files became available) indicates that the Amber Room was likely lost in the blaze that destroyed Konigsberg Castle in the spring of 1945. The Soviet officer assigned to find it as part of the Red Army initially made that conclusion in a report, then was forced to recant it.

Fortunately, it has since been reconstructed from photos and other old documentation of the original.


14 posted on 06/20/2016 8:32:03 PM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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To: Theoria

Don’t tell Gerardo.


15 posted on 06/20/2016 8:54:33 PM PDT by bleach (If I agreed with you, we would both be wrong.)
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To: Cicero
Did Hillary visit there while she was Sec of State?

A friend of my barber's next door neighbor said that there's an Amber Room in the basement of the Clinton Foundation. Just sayin'.

16 posted on 06/20/2016 9:00:28 PM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: Leaning Right

“A friend of my barber’s next door neighbor said that there’s an Amber Room in the basement of the Clinton Foundation. Just sayin’.”

Isn’t there an Kiddy Amber Room at Bill’s friend Jeffery Epstein on his private island?


17 posted on 06/20/2016 10:25:43 PM PDT by topspinr
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To: Theoria

I’d rather have my relatives back than all the physical items they stole from us.


18 posted on 06/20/2016 11:18:57 PM PDT by Read Write Repeat
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To: Theoria

So that’s where I left it...


19 posted on 06/20/2016 11:32:49 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Theoria

Paging Geraldo Rivera. Please pick up the white phone at the courtesy desk.


20 posted on 06/21/2016 12:41:24 AM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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