VikingGrandad
This will be an interesting story to follow as it develops:
German Treasure Hunters Claim to Have Found Amber Room
The comment about Hitler at the end of the article is, er... controversial!
This will be an interesting story to follow as it develops:
German Treasure Hunters Claim to Have Found Amber Room
The comment about Hitler at the end of the article is, er... controversial!
Lets wait until they know exactly what is down there but if its really the Amber Room....this would be the most important discovery of stolen art treasures of ww2.
Treasure hunters search the Amber Room since 60 years now !
I really think he is a bit naive to think that it would be declared our property.
As the nazis looted it, it was never legally their property. It was the property of the Soviet Union and as its successor state , the owner is now the Russian Federation.
They will simply demand it back without having to offer something in return stupid !
But if it should be the missing Reichsbank gold ...its all mine ehhh... ours
*packs a skimask and silenced luger into his travel bag*
This is the 1:1 replica that is now installed in the Catherine Palace
"That one over there" - Oswald Boelcke pointing at Manfred von Richthofen after having been asked who of the rookies shows most of whats required to become a great fighter pilot.
very interesting...i watched a program on public television about a month ago on this exact subject...
Wait I'm confused, how do you steal a whole room ? :P
"The convoy lights are dead ahead The Merchantmen lay in their bed....
A cunning fox in the chickens lair, A hound of hell and the devil don't care"
I'm more interested in the young lady in picture #3!
Careful in picture one she is a ghost :O!!
"The convoy lights are dead ahead The Merchantmen lay in their bed....
A cunning fox in the chickens lair, A hound of hell and the devil don't care"
Originally posted by Liddabit:
Wait I'm confused, how do you steal a whole room ? :P
How would you build a room like this ?In hundreds of small pieces that get mounted on the walls, one by one, like a big puzzle. And so you just need to disassemble everything and store the parts in crates.
"That one over there" - Oswald Boelcke pointing at Manfred von Richthofen after having been asked who of the rookies shows most of whats required to become a great fighter pilot.
I very much doubt whether the Amber Room is there, since its fate was most probably to be accidentally destroyed in a fire caused by drunk Soviet troops in Königsberg after the German surrender in May 1945. See "The Amber Room" by Catherine Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy, ISBN (of my copy) 1-84354-035-5.
The KNIL is dead. Long live the KNIL!
Update :
They've started drilling a hole down there and plan to let a camera down afterwards.
"That one over there" - Oswald Boelcke pointing at Manfred von Richthofen after having been asked who of the rookies shows most of whats required to become a great fighter pilot.
Celeon this is indeed an exciting story to follow, but there are a lot of doubters in the hunting community about what the Germans have actually found. For one thing amber is undetectable using the technology they're using - all the know for sure is it's silver or gold. Check out This Guy - he swears that they're onto a nazi gold cache, not the amber room itelf!
Anyway, this is an awesome story to keep up on! :-)
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