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.
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From what I recall on the subject, the soviets took it.
Took it back. I dunno.
Amber Room be where the lamps com form.
Heh!
Amber Lamps
Not much good without the girl;
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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.
That is an excellent theory.
The actor Eric Braeden (born Hans-Jörg Gudegast) is a survivor of the Gustloff.
Amber burns. It is generally accepted that it burned during the fighting.
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.
Either the Communists took and hid/destroyed it, or it was destroyed when the Konigsberg castle burnt by the Communists.
Warehouse 13 in the South Dakota Badlands
https://www.livescience.com/amber-room-nazi-wreck-poland.html
If the Polish government approves a recovery operation, SS Karlsruhe may reveal her secrets.
Russia should sue Germany. That level of theft is not part of war.
The Red Army raped Germany as bad as the Nazis raped Russia.
Nazis+Commies=Demoncrap “Progressives”
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