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Hunt for lost artwork from legendary Amber Room is set to begin as divers prepare to search sunken Nazi warship: Photos show vessel was carrying unidentified artwork and possible museum artefacts
Daily Mail UK ^ | 14 May 2021 | Ed Wight

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History
KEYWORDS: amber; amberroom; divers; gdansk; godsgravesglyphs; karlsruhe; ntsa; poland; room; russia; russianempire; tsars
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To: CivilWarBrewing; _longranger81
How about "sunk"? Sounds right to me.

Maybe it's a Brit thing.

I was mocking the writer, but _longranger81 topped me to a fare-thee-well.

21 posted on 05/18/2021 6:04:58 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: BenLurkin

Hopefully Geraldo Rivera isn’t involved.


22 posted on 05/18/2021 6:05:02 PM PDT by Spirit of Liberty (Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart.)
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To: BenLurkin

This is a fun thread - I love Amber Room threads anyway.


23 posted on 05/18/2021 6:06:31 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: a fool in paradise; SunkenCiv; kiryandil
The light cruiser was sunk in combat by a British submarine.

The unarmed steamer carrying civilians was sunk by the cowardly pilots Soviet Russian air force.


24 posted on 05/18/2021 6:06:49 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

See post #9


25 posted on 05/18/2021 6:07:40 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: BenLurkin
The unarmed steamer carrying civilians was sunk by the cowardly pilots Soviet Russian air force.

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.

26 posted on 05/18/2021 6:10:23 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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...

27 posted on 05/18/2021 7:41:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Thrownatbirth

I believe that the Russians made a new Amber Room anyway. I’m not sure if it was actually made with amber.


28 posted on 05/18/2021 8:03:10 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: kiryandil

The light cruiser Karlsruhe was sunk off Norway in 1940. Don’t these people do any research?


29 posted on 05/18/2021 9:19:26 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: BenLurkin

thx bl.


30 posted on 05/19/2021 1:40:56 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Bring in the Sham-wows!


31 posted on 05/19/2021 1:43:18 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: BenLurkin

By now it would be ruined and worthless, but at least we would know where it went...................


32 posted on 05/19/2021 5:14:07 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven.....................)
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To: Red Badger

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

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/10/the-wreck-of-the-wwii-steamship-karlsruhe-may-hold-lost-russian-treasure/


33 posted on 05/19/2021 11:28:25 AM PDT by bravo whiskey (Count Rostov "The tyranny of inare redistinguishable days.")
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To: SunkenCiv; All

UPDATE: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9961899/Hunt-lost-artwork-artefacts-legendary-Amber-Room-begins-sunken-Nazi-warship.html


34 posted on 09/09/2021 9:22:49 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

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/


35 posted on 09/09/2021 9:50:51 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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