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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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