Clues to the path to the legendary ‘amber room’

The discovery of a secret World War II tunnel system raises hopes that the missing ‘Amber Room’ may be found.
Over time, the amber room became an El Dorado of Europe (El Dorado – a legendary treasure in Latin America), creating a treasure-hunting fever that attracts from the rich to the poor who love to hunt. treasure.

Recently, the discovery of a secret tunnel system from World War II has raised hopes of being able to find the “Amber Room” – a $500 million treasure that has been missing for many years. The Amber Room was reconstructed over the course of 24 years at Catherine Palace, St Petersburg Accordingly, five passages belonging to a secret underground bunker system from World War II of Nazi Germany have been discovered in a 200-hectare forest in Mamerki, northeastern Poland and located near the Russian territory of Kaliningrad. This discovery raises hopes that the mysterious whereabouts of the “Amber Room” will be found. Mamerki used to be the place where the High Command of the Ground Forces of the Nazi army located its bunkers during World War II. “Currently, based on the discovery of the passages, the tunnels seem to be 50 meters long, but could be longer. Some of the tunnels were filled in, apparently to hide them, so we had to removed many objects before it was possible to know what was in the tunnels,” said Bartlomiej Plebanczyk, representative of the Marmeki Bunker Complex Museum. In 2003, the restoration of this room was completed. “The tunnel is part of a hitherto unknown underground corridor system that requires careful penetration. It could be an ideal place to stash treasure,” Mr. Plebanczyk said. The “Amber Room” theory may be hiding here. Known to be made entirely of amber, gold and precious stones, the amber room is a masterpiece of baroque art, widely recognized as one of the world’s most important artistic treasures. gender. It is said that when all 565 candles in the amber room are lit, it will reflect a fiery yellow light. The King of Prussia presented this room to Russian Tsar Peter the Great in 1716. Later, Queen Catherine II (1729-1796) of Russia ordered artisans to decorate the room and move it from the Winter Palace. in the city of St. Petersburg to her summer residence in Tsarskoye Selo, outside the city. Leaders of Russia – Germany attended the opening ceremony of the room after the restoration. In July 1941, during the campaign to invade the Soviet Union, the Nazis robbed the amber room and brought it home. Its whereabouts are unknown since then. At that time, the Soviet Union tried to hide this room by covering it with wallpaper, but the plan failed. The room was later taken by the Nazis by rail to Koenigsberg castle in East Prussia – now Kaliningrad. However, the room disappeared again in January 1945 after air raids and ground attacks in this city. Before the defeat, the Nazi leader Führer Adolf Hitler ordered the transfer of precious objects from East Prussia to Germany. However, the then East Prussian leader, Erich Koch, left his post before the order was carried out. The room mysteriously disappeared for the past 76 years. To date, there are hundreds of different theories about the fate of the amber room. One of them was the leader of the Nazi party in the province of Königsberg – Erich Koch – who brought the amber room and many treasures out of the city. At the end of World War II, Erich Koch was arrested in a Polish prison and sentenced to death. However, this sentence was never carried out. Many people believe that it was the secrets of the amber room that Erich kept that saved his life. That is also the reason why many people believe because many times Erich has changed his testimony about the burial place of the amber room. Others say that the Amber Room was destroyed by war and that the Amber Room became one of the most coveted treasures in the world. In 1979, at the Tsarskoye Selo museum in the Catherine Palace, a suburb of Saint Petersburg, Russian heritage restorers built a lifelike replica of this room according to preserved photographs. All implementation costs are financed by Russia’s Gazprom and Germany’s Ruhrgas. In 2003, after decades of serious work, Russian artisans restored the new amber room and inaugurated it at the Catherine Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia.