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'Amber Room': Can Russia's 'Eighth Wonder of the World' Lost in World War 2 Still Be Recovered?
Sputniknews.com ^

Posted on 03/06/2021 4:33:21 PM PST by ameribbean expat

In 1941, it was looted by Nazi Germany's Army Group North and transported to the former German city of Konigsberg, present-day Kaliningrad, and erected in Konigsberg Castle, where it remained on display until 1944.

“Konigsberg was a transfer base for looted cultural objects, which would be stored in the city for further transportation to other parts of Germany,” says Anatoly Valuev, a researcher from the Kaliningrad History and Arts Museum.

But as the city was engulfed by fire at the end of World War 2, the room mysteriously vanished.

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After 23 years of scrupulous work, architects and historians were able to re-create the legendary Amber Room at Catherine Palace, which opened to visitors in 2003.

(Excerpt) Read more at sputniknews.com ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: amber; amberroom; godsgravesglyphs; ntsa; wwii
Always been fascinated by this.
1 posted on 03/06/2021 4:33:21 PM PST by ameribbean expat
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To: ameribbean expat

From what I recall on the subject, the soviets took it.


2 posted on 03/06/2021 4:48:58 PM PST by W. (Autocorrect must die! How do I kill it?!)
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To: W.

Took it back. I dunno.


3 posted on 03/06/2021 4:49:47 PM PST by W. (Autocorrect must die! How do I kill it?!)
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To: W.

Amber Room be where the lamps com form.


4 posted on 03/06/2021 4:52:10 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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5 posted on 03/06/2021 4:55:33 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Fightin Whitey

Heh!


6 posted on 03/06/2021 4:57:01 PM PST by W. (Autocorrect must die! How do I kill it?!)
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To: EEGator

Amber Lamps


7 posted on 03/06/2021 5:21:09 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: EEGator

Not much good without the girl;

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8 posted on 03/06/2021 5:26:47 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (This space for rant.)
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To: ameribbean expat
I am personally of the opinion that the Amber Room was boxed up and loaded aboard the Wilhelm Gustloff, which was torpedoed and sunk fleeing Gotenhafen with up to 10,000 people embarked.
9 posted on 03/06/2021 5:33:27 PM PST by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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To: ameribbean expat

For several years after the berlin wall came down I had an email exchenge with an East German who knew a lot of WW II history at the end of things and he was convinced the Bernstein Zimmer was still hidden in Poland or East Germany. He schooled me in a lot of things that later were proved to be true.

He disappeared about 10 years ago from our conversations. Maybe he found something. He and his friends with metal detectors were always looking.


10 posted on 03/06/2021 5:53:04 PM PST by JeanLM (Obama proved melanin is just enough to win elections Trump proves being good is not enough..)
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To: BlueLancer

That is an excellent theory.


11 posted on 03/06/2021 6:11:04 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: BlueLancer

The actor Eric Braeden (born Hans-Jörg Gudegast) is a survivor of the Gustloff.


12 posted on 03/06/2021 6:12:49 PM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: ameribbean expat

Amber burns. It is generally accepted that it burned during the fighting.


13 posted on 03/06/2021 6:30:57 PM PST by AZJeep (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0AHQkryIIs)
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To: ameribbean expat

There was a book that came out (maybe a decade or more ago) that found evidence (including the original report of the head “antiquities officer” that accompanied the Soviet forces into Konigsberg) to indicate that it had been destroyed in the fire that consumed Konigsberg Castle during the battle.

The authors concluded that the Soviets had kept alive the rumor of the “missing” Amber Room to use as propaganda against the West, and also because it was simply too much to consider that one of Russia’s greatest art treasures had not only been stolen and destroyed, but from all indications it had been destroyed by Russians.


14 posted on 03/06/2021 6:32:09 PM PST 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: ameribbean expat

Either the Communists took and hid/destroyed it, or it was destroyed when the Konigsberg castle burnt by the Communists.


15 posted on 03/06/2021 6:33:22 PM PST by fso301
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To: ameribbean expat

Warehouse 13 in the South Dakota Badlands


16 posted on 03/06/2021 7:13:31 PM PST by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatche)
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To: BlueLancer

https://www.livescience.com/amber-room-nazi-wreck-poland.html

If the Polish government approves a recovery operation, SS Karlsruhe may reveal her secrets.


17 posted on 03/06/2021 7:18:23 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: ameribbean expat

Russia should sue Germany. That level of theft is not part of war.


18 posted on 03/06/2021 7:22:20 PM PST by GOPJ ("Critical Race Theory (CRT) is a hateful, divisive, manipulative fraud" - CACAGNY)
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The Red Army raped Germany as bad as the Nazis raped Russia.

Nazis+Commies=Demoncrap “Progressives”


19 posted on 03/07/2021 4:52:34 AM PST by MikeSteelBe (We will be safe from terror when we treat Islam like postwar Germany treated Nazism)
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20 posted on 03/07/2021 7:22:55 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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