Just when you thought it was safe to pick up a paper again... "The search for a one of the greatest missing treasures of the Second World War – an Amber Room worth £250million – has taken a fresh twist as treasure hunters say it may be in a secret room in a Polish museum. The room, built for Russian tsar Peter the Great in the 1700s and packed with amber, gold and precious jewels, was stolen by the Nazis and mysteriously disappeared at the end of the Second World War. For decades, hunters have scoured Europe searching for the missing treasure to no avail. But now, bosses at the Mamerki museum near Wegorzewo, north east Poland, say it may have been hidden behind a false wall that was sealed shut inside an old wartime bunker – after finding an unknown room measuring 6.5ft wide and 10ft long using geo-radar. Bartlomiej Plebanczyk from the museum told MailOnline: ‘We think there is a very good chance that the Amber Room is here for a number of reasons. 'Of course there were no such devices as ground-penetrating radar in the 1950s, so examining and finding hidden spaces wasn't possible. 'Inside may be elements of the Amber Chamber, but also other looted art. But there is no doubt that the room was created specifically for the purpose of treasure.' The suspicion that it could contain parts of the Amber Room is partly based on a testimony of a former Nazi guard. In the 1950s he told a Polish bomb squad unit that in the winter of 1944 he saw heavily-guarded trucks driving up to the bunker and unloading a large cargo. After the trucks had been emptied, the room they had been placed in was sealed. It is thought parts of the Amber Room were stored in the bunker complex for later transportation. Throughout the the next two decades, Polish bomb squads searched the bunkers for evidence of the hidden room, but failed to find anything. The Amber Room was originally supposed to have been an amber cabinet – a gift from Friedrich-Wilhelm I of Prussia to Peter the Great. But instead, it was decided to use the panels as wall coverings, surrounding them with gilded carving, mirrors and yet more amber panels." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3552241/Is-60-year-hunt-missing-250million-Amber-Room-FINALLY-New-images-Nazi-looted-treasure-hidden-sealed-wall-secret-room-underground-bunker-Poland.html#ixzz46bsbFbjt
Has anyone contacted Geraldo Rivera? The Amber Room was packed and stored in a warehouse in Konigsberg that was burned by drunken Russian soldiers after they took the city. That's been established in a dozen different ways since the archives have been opened after the fall of the USSR. Still, the Russians have never officially acknowledged this, so the "mystery" continues. The short story goes like this; Speer's people were supposed to evacuate all the valuables including artistic and strategic materials in the city. The German records, such as they are, indicate that they didn't get around to the Amber Room before the Russians cut off the rail routes. The crates were still in the warehouse as the last German fighting troops fled. The Soviets entered, held a little party to celebrate and one of the buildings burned was the warehouse indicated in the German records as holding those crates. Soviet officials investigated but the findings were 'inconclusive" or worded to the effect that further investigation would be politically dangerous. Amber burns like tar when ignited and of course the wooden gilded panels and other furniture would burn as well. They dropped it because it's embarrassing that their own soldiers burned this national treasure. There is no amber room.
