Thursday, 1 October 2020

Nazi shipwreck found off Poland may solve Amber Room mystery

Polish divers locate Karlsruhe, which they hope holds treasure Nazis looted from Russia Polish divers say they have found the wreck of a German second world war ship that may help solve a decades-old mystery about the whereabouts of the Amber Room, an ornate chamber that the Nazis looted from a tsarist palace in Russia. Decorated with amber and gold, the room was part of the Catherine Palace near St Petersburg. It was last seen in Königsberg, then a Baltic port city in Germany but now the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad. Continue reading...
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