To: nickcarraway
One mystery of looted WWII art which intrigues me is what happened to The Amber Room, looted from St. Petersburg. The Nazis hauled it off, possibly to Königsberg. Was it destroyed in bombing? Hidden in a cave? Sunk into a lake? Inquiring minds want to know.
6 posted on
05/05/2022 12:29:44 PM PDT by
Governor Dinwiddie
(LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
To: Governor Dinwiddie
what happened to The Amber Room
I'm not sure, but I think President Trump would like to replicate it in the White House during his second term.
10 posted on
05/05/2022 12:32:57 PM PDT by
Dr. Sivana
(“...we would live very well without Facebook."-B.LeMaire)
To: Governor Dinwiddie
One mystery of looted WWII art which intrigues me is what happened to The Amber Room, looted from St. Petersburg. I think that it was loaded aboard the "Wilhelm Gustloff" in the evacuation of Konigsberg and went down with that ship, and over an estimated 9000 people, when it was torpedoed by a Russian sub ..
17 posted on
05/05/2022 12:40:33 PM PDT by
BlueLancer
(Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
To: Governor Dinwiddie
What does one do in a room like that? Play ping pong?
To: Governor Dinwiddie
Read a FReeper comment about the Amber Room a while back offering the theory that it was aboard the Wilhelm Gustloff when it was sunk in January, 1945 while evacuating Germans and documents from the Baltic States.
Don’t recall the name of the poster.
To: Governor Dinwiddie
Is that Trumps living room?
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