Will the Legendary Lost ‘Amber Room’ Ever Be Found?
Treasure hunters search shipwrecks and Nazi bunkers for a trace.
They hoped to discover one of the most exciting lost treasures of the 20th century. But it was not to be.
A year ago, a team of divers announced they had found the wreck of the German steamer Karlsruhe, which sank off the coast of Poland in the final weeks of World War II.
The fate of the German steamer is well known. During “Operation Hannibal,” when Germans were fleeing the advancing Red Army, they filled the steamer, but it was bombed by Soviet planes and sank in the Baltic Sea in April 1945. Hundreds were killed. But the wreckage site was unknown.
The 15-man team from the Baltictech diving group told reporters they pored over Allied, German and Soviet documents to research the location of the steamer wreck. They spent more than a year looking for it, believing it to be among “the most interesting, yet uncovered stories from the Baltic sea bed.”
And to this team, arguably the most interesting aspect of all was that the decades’ old wreck might contain the Amber Room.
One of the most beautiful rooms in history, the Amber Room was been described as the Eighth Wonder of the World.
