look at the Amber Room in Koenigsberg prior to 2 World War
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most recent projects in search of the legendary Amber Room focused on Kaliningrad, formerly Konigsberg, to the last known residence of the room, follow German researchers a unique theory and suggest the Amber Room to this day Wuppertal.
"For some time we are dealing with the search of the legendary Amber Room, which is called time and again as the eighth wonder of the world. Against this background it is the life story of the war criminal Erich Koch for us of particular interest said the spokesman of the "community of interest for the Study of Historical Events "(Community of Interest Exploration Historically Significant Events, CIEHSE, www.grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.de
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the futile search of the former East German State Security after the stolen valuables and treasures. "There were all the technical requirements and access to all the remaining files are available. Why were the experts still nothing?"
for the Wuppertal researchers is clear: "Erich Koch had two living areas. His hometown of Wuppertal in North Rhine-Westphalia and Konigsberg In Wuppertal, he was born, went to school there and has recently worked for the railroad, before he went to Konigsberg. There he ruled with an iron hand at all times had access to Hitler's headquarters and was well informed about the military situation. Certainly he did not delay the advance of the Red Army, to bring his prey to safety. ? But where "answer
this question, the researchers presented to Karl-Heinz Kleine, even the question of how we have acted ?" Our theory and the answer to this question: would a man of power like Erich Koch's Do not underestimate Goering and other Nazi organizations leave. He would not let in foreign regions with uncertain political future, but there can bring, where he himself well knew about and saw a good chance to return after the war there - in his home. A former railway worker, he had to open to ways and means to have transported the treasures by car. "
actual fact, in Wuppertal, a large number of tunnels, bunkers and underground former weapons factories, as in a hiding question come and in which up to now never searched for the Amber Room. was "We have started to investigate the many possible hiding places, we have approved after wide research into the eye," said Klein. "Of course everything is coordinated with the authorities of the city and we learn from there remarkable support. " by reports about the search of the Wuppertal researchers in magazines in Kaliningrad, the treasure hunters were recently new important contacts on site with new information that previously so . were not available books on (independent from the search of CIEHSE-
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Background: was commissioned the Amber Room of the Prussian King Frederick I wallcoverings entirely of amber elements for a room in the Berlin City Palace. Anno 1716 is then given away by King Friedrich Wilhelm I to the Russian Tsar Peter the Great and was subsequently almost two centuries in the Catherine Palace in Tsarskoe Selo near St. Petersburg.
This was in September 1941, seized by the German army as residential accommodation. From here, the rooms from the 14th October 1941 within 36 hours dismantled, packed in 27 boxes and transported to Königsberg, where it was issued as part of the collection in parts of Prussia in Königsberg Castle. After a fire in an exhibition space of the Konigsberg castle 1944, the wall cladding dismantled and probably stored in the basement of the Royal Castle in boxes.
Since the end of the Second World War, it is lost. The Catherine Palace is located since 2003, a faithful replica of the Amber Room. (Source: Wikipedia.de)
sources: international scientific aktuell.de / amber-room.org
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