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    Could Nazi shipwreck discovery solve World War II mystery?- The Amber Room

    Could Nazi shipwreck discovery solve World War II mystery?- The Amber Room

    Until now searches for the famed Amber Room have focused on Nazi bunkers. Now a shipwreck has been found that may solve the mystery.

    Polish divers say they have found the wreck of a German World War II ship, which may help to solve a decades-old mystery.

    The whereabouts of the Amber Room, an ornate chamber from a tsarist palace in Russia that was looted by the Nazis has been the cause of speculation since the end of the war.


    Decorated with amber and gold, the Amber Room was part of the Catherine Palace near St Petersburg, but was last seen in Koenigsberg, then a Baltic port city in Germany but now the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.


    It was from Koenigsberg that the Karlsruhe steamer set sail in 1945 with a heavy cargo, before being sunk by Soviet warplanes off the coast of Poland.


    Now divers from the Baltictech group say they have found the wreck of the ship.

    "We have been looking for the wreckage since last year, when we realized there could be the most interesting, undiscovered story lying at the bottom of the Baltic Sea," diver Tomasz Stachura said in a statement.


    "It is practically intact. In its holds we discovered military vehicles, porcelain and many crates with contents still unknown."
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    I thought that they'd determined that it was there in Russia all the time, just covered. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_Room
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    Quote Originally Posted by DGUtley View Post
    I thought that they'd determined that it was there in Russia all the time, just covered. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_Room
    Isn't that just parts of the Amber Room?
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    I think they hid it behind wallpaper but the Nazis found it, disassembled it, and stole it. It would be amazing to find it at the bottom of the sea now.
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    Not sure.
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