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« on: January 24, 2010, 01:40:13 pm »
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I find it a bit confusing that the bunker would have an iron gate with Viking symbols & a cross as I assume it was built in haste. Maybe it was recycled? Here's a couple of links about the same story. Sue

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1244140/Priceless-Amber-Room-Tsars-looted-hidden-Nazis-Russian-treasure-hunter.html


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Hunt for Russia"s famed Amber Room leads to Nazi bunker
By Valerie Leroux (AFP)
KALININGRAD, Russia ? The mystery of Russia"s famed Amber Room, seized as the spoils of war by the Nazis, has puzzled historians and experts since it disappeared in 1945.
Sergei Trifonov, however, believes he has solved the riddle, and that the treasure -- ornately carved panels of glowing amber, formed from fossilized resin -- lies underneath a bunker in the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.
"Believe me or not, it's there, 12 metres down in the sub-soil," he said, pointing to the entrance of a bunker that sheltered the Nazi high command in the last hours of the Battle of Koenigsberg.
"This place was built (in February 1945) with two aims: accommodating the headquarters of General Otto Lasch and storing the treasures of Koenigsberg, a city under siege," . . . .

. . Trifonov has begun to probe the soil under the bunker using a ground-penetrating radar, and pump out water. He has already unearthed a brick-lined room.
The bunker is 300 metres from the site of the castle -- demolished in 1967 -- that sheltered the Amber Room. Its iron gate features Viking symbols and a Teutonic cross, suggesting it wasn't only for military use . . . .






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« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2010, 11:11:03 am »
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       Since Koenigsberg was in East Prussia, it was under German control the entire period up until the Battle of Koenigsberg.  Many, if not most, of the bunker found in Germany were built before armed hostilities started.   And even in cases where the bunker was built during the war, the doors would have been manufactured somewhere else---quite possibly in the Saar or Ruhr valleys hundreds of  miles away from Koenigsberg.   
       As far as decorating the bunker doors with Viking symbols.....the entire Nazi party, but especially the SS, where very much into Viking/Northern Germanic history/mythology and frequently used "viking" runes and symbols.

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« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2010, 11:35:45 am »
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I want to get into this conversation but know little about the amber room But I just got a book, 
The Amber Room : The Fate of the World's Greatest Lost Treasure
by Adrian Levy, Catherine Scott-Clark
has anyone read it.

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« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2010, 11:43:37 am »
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Seldom,  this will give you a very quick, very high-level background on it: 

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http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/world-history/brief_amber.html
   Of all the art treasures the Nazis looted from occupied territories, this was probably the largest and perhaps the most valuable. 

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You might also want to take a look at this, as it  covers the current reproduction of the Amber room and some of the other theories as to what has become of it.
 

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« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2010, 12:14:35 pm »
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Thanks BA I have had a passing interest in the AR for awhile and now that you and Sue are showing a interest I will read up on it.

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« Reply #5 on: January 27, 2010, 03:25:00 pm »
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Thanks for the insight on their usage of those symbols. Enjoyed the links. Didn't realize a curse was associated with it. Interesting mystery as it's one those treasures that keeps being "found" like Atlantis. I like to try & imagine the sensory experience of the candle illuminated room. Sue

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