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
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/
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
