The unarmed steamer carrying civilians was sunk by the cowardly pilots Soviet Russian air force.
Posted on 05/18/2021 5:40:36 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Divers hunting for lost artwork from the legendary Amber Room looted by the Nazis are to begin searching a WWII shipwreck at the bottom of the Baltic Sea after photos revealed unidentified paintings and possible artefacts.
The 12-man team from the Baltictech diving group will spend 10 days off the coast of Gdansk, Poland, at the end of May at the site where the German steamer Karlsruhe was sank by a Royal Navy submarine in 1945.
Tomasz Stachura from Baltictech told MailOnline that initial observations of the wreck had revealed several 'non-military crates' as well as what appears to be the remains of 'picture frames and rotting canvases'.
He added that the handles of several crates suggest they could be from museums.
The team hopes to uncover the contents of the lost Amber Room, an ornate chamber of panels made from six tonnes of amber built for Tsar Peter the Great in the 1700s and ransacked by Hitler's invaders in 1941.
According to the ship's official cargo documents, there was 360 tonnes of goods on board before it was hit by a torpedo from HMS Truant and scuttled in April 1945.
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Maybe it's a Brit thing.
I was mocking the writer, but _longranger81 topped me to a fare-thee-well.
Hopefully Geraldo Rivera isn’t involved.
This is a fun thread - I love Amber Room threads anyway.
The unarmed steamer carrying civilians was sunk by the cowardly pilots Soviet Russian air force.
See post #9
Sounds about right for the Commies.
And they knew all about the civvies, no doubt - but it will be ironic if they sank one of their greatest cultural treasures before they could sell it off for pennies on the dollar to keep Uncle Joe afloat.
The Amber Room was lost in WWII, probably buried to protect it, as so much was, but whomever hid it died, and no one knew the burial spot. Thanks BenLurkin. [singing] there's a pretty little thing, waitin' for the king, down in the Amber Room, walkin' in Russia...
I believe that the Russians made a new Amber Room anyway. I’m not sure if it was actually made with amber.
The light cruiser Karlsruhe was sunk off Norway in 1940. Don’t these people do any research?
thx bl.
Bring in the Sham-wows!
By now it would be ruined and worthless, but at least we would know where it went...................
It was believed the amber room was on Wilhelm Gustloff, which was torpedoed by a Soviet sub on 30JAN45 with the loss of over 9000 souls. Pictures of the wreck show evidence of Soviets cutting into the hull searching for it.
Another belief is it was in the basement of Konigsburg castle which was pretty well leveled by the RAF and Soviet artillery.
I believe the Germans paid for the restoration of the amber room seen today.
This is a better article
The Amber Room is probably still on that train that is hidden in an old German tunnel. /jk
[snip] As the forces moved into Pushkin, officials and curators of the Catherine Palace attempted to disassemble and hide the Amber Room. When the dry amber began to crumble, the officials instead tried hiding the room behind thin wallpaper. But the ruse didn’t fool the German soldiers, who tore down the Amber Room within 36 hours, packed it up in 27 crates and shipped it to Königsberg, Germany (present-day Kaliningrad). The room was reinstalled in Königsberg’s castle museum on the Baltic Coast.
The museum’s director, Alfred Rohde, was an amber aficionado and studied the room’s panel history while it was on display for the next two years. In late 1943, with the end of the war in sight, Rohde was advised to dismantle the Amber Room and crate it away. In August of the following year, allied bombing raids destroyed the city and turned the castle museum into ruins. And with that, the trail of the Amber Room was lost. [/snip]
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-brief-history-of-the-amber-room-160940121/
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