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  • Опубликовано: 29 мар 2024
  • The Amber Room was once called the 8th wonder of the world. A dazzling chamber completely adorned with Amber Panels was the stuff of legends. Then World War 2 began and the Nazis quickly plundered this treasured masterpiece of the USSR. But whatever happened to this priceless room?
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Комментарии • 202

  • @Montana_horseman
    @Montana_horseman Месяц назад +154

    From a silver and goldsmith / gem cutter and someone that works with Baltic amber perspective: I kept waiting for them to talk about how far back in human history the use of amber goes. It's a deep history and just one of the uses of amber in ancient times was as a fire starter. Amber burns, as it burns and more of it melts the fire will just keep increasing. Given the battle damage visible on the castle and then the possible torching of it after, I've always felt the amber room burned. If that's true then nothing would be found of it after a fire bad enough to destroy an entire castle.

    • @siliconwolverine
      @siliconwolverine Месяц назад +17

      I always felt the same. It would have burned hot enough no trace would have survived that science of the time could have found.

    • @Pack.Leader
      @Pack.Leader Месяц назад +15

      Thank you so much for this interesting bit of information that only someone with your knowledge could pass along to the rest of us. I think it seems they burned it all too. Such a shame.

    • @gonefishing167
      @gonefishing167 Месяц назад +11

      Sounds very feasible but - how sad. Makes you wonder how much of what they stole is still missing. It’s so very sad and a loss to humanity 🙏🙏🙏👵🇦🇺

    • @Montana_horseman
      @Montana_horseman Месяц назад +14

      @@gonefishing167 A good friend that got me into working with Baltic amber was an older lady from Latvia on the Baltic coast, where much amber is found. During WW2 her father was taken by the nazis and never came back. Many years later she learned her father had be executed by them because they released the photos they took of people before executing them. Her fathers photo was part of that release. I love working with amber but there's a part of it that's bitter sweet to me because of her fathers fate.

    • @Montana_horseman
      @Montana_horseman Месяц назад +4

      @@Pack.Leader You're very welcome and nice to see such a kind reply from you. 👍

  • @chrismc8000
    @chrismc8000 Месяц назад +36

    Visited Catherine’s Palace outside of St. Petersburg several years ago and was able to see the beautiful craftsmanship that had recreated the Amber room. Absolutely stunning. There were photos of the destruction of the palace done by the Germans in WWII. Horrible. War is horrible…

    • @donahunt832
      @donahunt832 Месяц назад +1

      YES it is....WHY???

    • @1sonyzz
      @1sonyzz 5 дней назад

      Tell that to Putin, who does what now? ah, yes - war...

  • @Za7a7aZ
    @Za7a7aZ Месяц назад +20

    When you give people unlimited power they just can not handle it. Whatever their personal desires are will grow towards the extreme

    • @rlopez11-11
      @rlopez11-11 28 дней назад

      Like having dignity, private inner self and basic universal human rights enforcement? SCUMBAGS. WAR CRIMINAL SYNDICATE.

  • @Celisar1
    @Celisar1 Месяц назад +10

    This documentary makes it appear as if the Amber Room had been Russian from the get go and only shortly mentions that it was crafted by Germans before being “presented” to the Russian Tsar.
    But in fact is was a German art work ordered by the Prussian King Friedrich I for his Berlin Castle, designed by a German (Johann Friedrich Eosander) and manufactured by German craftsmen.
    Although it belonged to the Russian empire later in history this is an important background story and not making that clear is a red flag in any documentary!

    • @amandaskywalker7331
      @amandaskywalker7331 24 дня назад +1

      They also frequently refer to the Soviets as "the Russians" ...

    • @user-Rocket-Fest
      @user-Rocket-Fest День назад

      It is a well known fact that a certain species loves to fiddle with History

  • @karlshuler1011
    @karlshuler1011 Месяц назад +25

    I have it. I bought it at a garage sale for $2. It now sits on my basement wall. You never know what treasures a garage sale has. Who knew.

  • @loumcast
    @loumcast Месяц назад +35

    The re-constructed Ambar room at Catherine's Palace in Tsarskoye Selo, it's stunning, a work of art not to be missed if you ever happened to be in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

    • @splitman1129
      @splitman1129 Месяц назад +1

      It's material objects. Forget about it . Save your soul instead.

    • @Kidraver555
      @Kidraver555 Месяц назад +1

      Wow another expert etymologist changing the spelling of words to something he thinks is more accurate, lmfao, I bet you think loose means defeat as well.

    • @kingtut4509
      @kingtut4509 Месяц назад +2

      I was there in 2005 and it is by far the most beautiful place!!!

    • @trevordavis1278
      @trevordavis1278 Месяц назад +1

      Who are u

    • @kingtut4509
      @kingtut4509 Месяц назад +1

      WHO ARE YOU?

  • @AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg
    @AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg Месяц назад +11

    The Amber Room exists, its at Reich headquarters in Argentina

    • @ruthqueen6282
      @ruthqueen6282 Месяц назад +2

      Or in Antarctica

    • @bronkonovak6555
      @bronkonovak6555 5 дней назад +1

      I believe it was moved to Argentina at the end of the cold war, perhaps in one of the many submarines that showed up in Argentina.

    • @user-bx1dq4oy6c
      @user-bx1dq4oy6c День назад +1

      Can confirm been there and seen it

    • @bronkonovak6555
      @bronkonovak6555 День назад +1

      Looks by looking at the two places we're it was suppose to be moved too right next to the water you can tell the intention was to load it up in a submarine and send it off, 100% it's in Argentina..

  • @grimmertwin2148
    @grimmertwin2148 Месяц назад +9

    The Vatican has it probably

    • @danwolf307
      @danwolf307 Месяц назад

      Why was it full of children?

  • @loumcast
    @loumcast Месяц назад +34

    If the Ambar room had been destroyed by fire at the castle in Konigsberg, you would think they would have found some traces of the melted amber among the ruins.

    • @eyetrollin710
      @eyetrollin710 Месяц назад +4

      Please understand that Amber is combustible it is a fuel it doesn't just melt

    • @johnphillips8922
      @johnphillips8922 12 дней назад +1

      Yes. But as gasoline or “petrol” can be detected after a fire, I feel certain that a trace of Amber, no matter how small would be findable.

    • @TheOmegakix
      @TheOmegakix 5 дней назад

      @@johnphillips8922 This was in 1945, since then castle was destroyed, buried and built over... so when we maybe had the technology to find "traces" of burnt amber, there was no more where to look.

  • @Cool5380
    @Cool5380 Месяц назад +7

    Yes I wonder why the Wilhelm Gustloff is cut and blown to bits why could that be?

  • @carlabonnet7314
    @carlabonnet7314 Месяц назад +8

    So many things were hidden in mines and caves

  • @adambane1719
    @adambane1719 Месяц назад +24

    Have you ever been to any museum in Britain or France ... ??
    ....because they are absoloutely FILLED with someone elses, "priceless works of art"

    • @masterzimny
      @masterzimny Месяц назад +4

      What’s your point?

    • @paullewis2413
      @paullewis2413 Месяц назад +4

      @@masterzimnyJust one of those uniformed people who are ignorant of the fact that a great number exhibits in the great museums of the World would not exist today (just like the Amber Room) had it not been for those people who rescued them from almost certain destruction or at least ruination. These works of art are there today for anyone to see unlike private collections that are hidden away.

    • @tenaci-et-rip-eam
      @tenaci-et-rip-eam Месяц назад +4

      Oddly a great deal of those artifacts were stolen robbing graves et cetera

    • @adambane1719
      @adambane1719 Месяц назад

      Yeah, because the Spanish and British and French "christians" didnt go around annihilating burning and destroying the history and the historical items and histories of the native cultures they were obliterating for profit!? Have you ever read a book Paul ?? @@paullewis2413

    • @adambane1719
      @adambane1719 Месяц назад +5

      @@paullewis2413 Yeah, because the Spanish and British and French "christians" didnt go around annihilating burning and destroying the history and the historical items and histories of the native cultures they were obliterating for profit!? Have you ever read a book Paul ??

  • @chadbennett3998
    @chadbennett3998 17 дней назад +1

    Watching from Mackinac Island Michigan

  • @user-mh8vy2ui3s
    @user-mh8vy2ui3s Месяц назад +22

    I hope he or someone finds that artistic miracle. I know it was replaced, but the antique room needs to arise from the darkness.

    • @neighborhoodcatlady6094
      @neighborhoodcatlady6094 Месяц назад +8

      Unfortunately if they do find it, the amber is probably destroyed due to the atmospheric conditions of where it is located. 😿

    • @AAlvarez14520
      @AAlvarez14520 Месяц назад +7

      @@neighborhoodcatlady6094or in some rich persons mansion & told no one.

    • @sarah2544
      @sarah2544 Месяц назад

      😢Aw2😂😂😂😢lol I'll​@@neighborhoodcatlady6094

  • @robertafierro5592
    @robertafierro5592 2 дня назад

    I swear that the Amber Room is hidden in the Mystery Train that's underneath the mountain in a dark secret tunnel.

  • @justinfuller8803
    @justinfuller8803 Месяц назад +4

    Interesting documentary. The steam train shown therein was a Highland Railway Jones goods engine with cattle wagons. Strange inclusion.

    • @user-tt8xf9td6b
      @user-tt8xf9td6b Месяц назад +1

      Whatever they can find to illustrate the point. Just as all of the video of blasting to illustrate the clearing of blockages in mine tunnels was obviously surface blasts.

  • @cjason123
    @cjason123 Месяц назад +2

    I'm guessing amber melts/burns when heated?

  • @katherinecollins4685
    @katherinecollins4685 20 дней назад

    Presented well

  • @MacAdam-itsme
    @MacAdam-itsme Месяц назад

    excellent

  • @markholditt3342
    @markholditt3342 Месяц назад +2

    It is where it always was. It's just been boarded over

  • @timothynauss8940
    @timothynauss8940 Месяц назад

    What about the amber room room stories out of Poland at the maraki bunkers near the wolfs layer ????

  • @charlieoscar09
    @charlieoscar09 Месяц назад +5

    The Amber Room has gone up in smoke

  • @apantrakis
    @apantrakis Месяц назад

    Who knows the epic music uses during the 4.30 minute, when is shown the amber room ?

  • @AllIsWellaus
    @AllIsWellaus Месяц назад +3

    They were once a dominant feature on the shores of Lake Rotomahana. Considered the 8th Wonder of the World, the Pink and White Terraces were the original New Zealand tourism destination, until they were buried in the 1886 eruption of Mt Tarawera.

    • @gonefishing167
      @gonefishing167 Месяц назад +1

      We saw them and they were just wonderful. So sad but at least it was natural, not the fault of man 🙏🙏👵🇦🇺

    • @devriestown
      @devriestown Месяц назад

      I'm from New Zealand 🇳🇿 interesting

  • @spscorse
    @spscorse Месяц назад +1

    It’s buried in a mine with a lot of other Loot

  • @prawnstar9213
    @prawnstar9213 3 дня назад

    Seriously doubt it was ever in Argentina. The nazis the ran there after the war left with one suitcase. They didn’t have time to empty their homes and pack up furniture.. and nothing moved on a ship that was as large even just one panel without being identified. I think it either sits buried or hidden or it was broken down into pieces sold over time.

  • @1sonyzz
    @1sonyzz 5 дней назад

    And amber was stolen from our country, amber came from baltic sea

  • @melissataylor9479
    @melissataylor9479 Месяц назад +4

    Huge panels aren’t in some crack in the ground.

  • @flashladderacrobat
    @flashladderacrobat Месяц назад +1

    It could have been on the Willhem Gustlof, sank by a Soviet Sub.

  • @acaciablossom558
    @acaciablossom558 Месяц назад +13

    They are never going to find it until someone forces Switzerland to open their vaults. That’s where it is. And that’s where the other lost treasure and great works of art are.
    I guarantee you somebody there has some clause that unclaimed vaults default to bank ownership after some number of years.

    • @moodybluesgurl
      @moodybluesgurl Месяц назад

      My guess was its in the Vatican since they had an interesting alliance with the nazis but I very much like your theory, they were not as neutral as people believe, who knows what may be hidden in those vast bunkers....

    • @vcom2327
      @vcom2327 Месяц назад

      Complete nonsense

  • @nanabutner
    @nanabutner Месяц назад +1

    I have read that because of the way the original Amber Room was constructed, when either the USSR or GERMANY tried to remove the actual Amber it was so fragile that it was destroyed. Who knows, was the Amber Room ever even moved at all? Considering that it has NEVER been found--I have to wonder if it ever survived the attempts to remove it from the Palace.

  • @richcooper6989
    @richcooper6989 12 дней назад

    Did they get backers ? And look behind the colopsed part?

  • @carenkurdjinian5413
    @carenkurdjinian5413 Месяц назад

    Interesting………🌞

  • @gfurstnsu
    @gfurstnsu Месяц назад +1

    I’ve read somewhere that late in the war a boat left the Kronesburg. It was loaded with refugees and was sunk. In the hold of this boat passengers saw large boxes and crates seen being loaded. Were they full of the reminders of the amber room? This boat was torpedoed by the Russians and repidly sank with a large majority of the passengers drown. Maybe the Amber Room is at the bottom of the Baltic Sea.😂

  • @user-jd4kx4ff9q
    @user-jd4kx4ff9q 22 дня назад

    I think I could tell you where to find it

  • @NikonFstopper
    @NikonFstopper 27 дней назад +1

    Could secretly be at the Vatican!

  • @jameswisecarver
    @jameswisecarver 2 дня назад

    I've got it, I use it a mud/laundry room, ha, peasants.

  • @gonefishing167
    @gonefishing167 Месяц назад +1

    So interesting, thank you. One hopes it could be found for historical reasons - and the sheet beauty and craftsmanship of it - but I think the odds are slim. Just ‘burnt up’ seems like such a sheer waste, as is all warfare I guess 🙏🙏🙏🙏👵🇦🇺

  • @danielleriverin3117
    @danielleriverin3117 Месяц назад +3

    One thing is you can't never hide the truth! ❣️

    • @keithfrost1190
      @keithfrost1190 Месяц назад

      If you believe that, you'll believe anything!

    • @WeAreLegion-
      @WeAreLegion- Месяц назад

      How many ET species are on earth? since you know all truths...

  • @DrinkTheKoolAid62
    @DrinkTheKoolAid62 Месяц назад

    Believing the Amber Room still exists is, sadly, pure romanticism

  • @user-jd4kx4ff9q
    @user-jd4kx4ff9q 22 дня назад

    Less chance of bombers attack a convoy

  • @chriscarrol9373
    @chriscarrol9373 Месяц назад

    Is this where the first amber alert came from???? LoL

  • @yotagang3705
    @yotagang3705 4 дня назад

    how tf do you move a whole room

  • @billysewardgardening
    @billysewardgardening Месяц назад

    old world tartartian treasure

  • @crizzonet
    @crizzonet 12 дней назад

    TL;DW - he didn’t find it

  • @dwardodwardo643
    @dwardodwardo643 Месяц назад

    All this history of searching, was nothing else found?

  • @talltrees358
    @talltrees358 Месяц назад

    Like finding a unicorn.

  • @steveh-m665
    @steveh-m665 Месяц назад +1

    How silly! Who took the color pics of the amber room?! 🤔 Ask them where it is! 😂

    • @amandaskywalker7331
      @amandaskywalker7331 24 дня назад

      They recreated it 30 years ago - that is what they are showing. And color photography existed before 1941 you know.

  • @ruthqueen6282
    @ruthqueen6282 Месяц назад +1

    It is in Antarctica.

  • @Izzymohammed1
    @Izzymohammed1 Месяц назад

    JUST WOW❤❤❤👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

  • @whatadollslife
    @whatadollslife Месяц назад +3

    38:23 is that Putin in the group???

  • @francisklambauer144
    @francisklambauer144 Месяц назад

    The Amber Room is long gone!WHY? Not on shredd of it has EVER reappeared! In our GREEDY world it or a peice would of it, have reappeared somewhere for Sale!

  • @chriscarrol9373
    @chriscarrol9373 Месяц назад

    Some would say it's best to let sleeping dogs lie. I have done alot of bad things.

  • @PeterJessenDK
    @PeterJessenDK 29 дней назад

    It's very peculiar that no single Russian institution or individual is credited for the contents. Have we come so far?

  • @user-jd4kx4ff9q
    @user-jd4kx4ff9q 22 дня назад

    If your tips say they took it south they really took it north

  • @mohammedsaysrashid3587
    @mohammedsaysrashid3587 Месяц назад

    It was a thrilled story .GDR...Spent allot of money 💰 and human efforts for finding a past smoked thread ..while that money and human efforts are needed for the progression of human lifestyle in GDR

  • @grzegorzrokita2330
    @grzegorzrokita2330 Месяц назад +1

    Niemcy obrabowali Polskę podczas wojny do tej pory nie chcą zwracać kradzionych dzieł sztuki przez 6 lat zamordowali 6 milionów Polaków. A obecnie pouczają Nas! jak mamy żyć!

    • @Celisar1
      @Celisar1 Месяц назад

      Not 6 million Polish people. 🙄
      Please open a history book instead of making such stupid claims.

  • @Naitomea215
    @Naitomea215 Месяц назад +2

    They're looking for Andre the Giant?

  • @vadusnisky31
    @vadusnisky31 Месяц назад

    The conclusion of detailed investigation undertaken by the allies after the war was that it was destroyed by fire in an allied air raid on a castle which had been targeted as an ss control centre.
    Remnants recovered from the remains contained burnt amber with wood from the storage cabinets used for transportation.
    The Germans themselves
    Told the enquiry that the last place it was stored together was at this castle and there was no doubt whatsoever that the burnt remnants in the ruins of the castle were all that remained of the amber room.

  • @chris.asi_romeo
    @chris.asi_romeo Месяц назад +2

    Indiana Jones

  • @Ai-he1dp
    @Ai-he1dp Месяц назад

    If it were found who would it belong to?

    • @JoseAntonio-oy9ll
      @JoseAntonio-oy9ll Месяц назад +1

      Russia.

    • @Ai-he1dp
      @Ai-he1dp Месяц назад

      @@JoseAntonio-oy9ll then it's best left where it is....in Germany.

    • @JoColours
      @JoColours Месяц назад

      @@JoseAntonio-oy9ll But the Germans would almost certainly steal it again.

    • @Celisar1
      @Celisar1 Месяц назад

      I would say Russia.
      The Prussian King was an idiot for trading it but done is done.

  • @Za7a7aZ
    @Za7a7aZ Месяц назад +1

    We all know people love money...if there was someone who knew where it is he would have stepped forward already. So it is not in private hands. What left is soneone knew but died..and took the location to the grave. Or the russians have it..but would have presented it to the world..or it is destroyed and gone

  • @Picks_Productions
    @Picks_Productions Месяц назад

    Andre the Giant died ages ago.

    • @prawnstar9213
      @prawnstar9213 3 дня назад

      I saw him at a Hyatt bar in Greenwich Connecticut in 1987. I was 5 years old.. I went and asked him for his autograph.. just a little girl.. he told me to “f off”

  • @markgarin6355
    @markgarin6355 Месяц назад +1

    But never found... nothing to see here keep moving

  • @grzegorzrokita2330
    @grzegorzrokita2330 Месяц назад

    W Polsce jest gdzieś ukryty złoty pociąg..

  • @phillipkennedy508
    @phillipkennedy508 13 дней назад

    Did ayone bother to look at The Vatican??

  • @billysewardgardening
    @billysewardgardening Месяц назад

    founded

  • @robertbennett9949
    @robertbennett9949 28 дней назад

    Soviets.......not 'Russians '.

  • @Aspectus
    @Aspectus Месяц назад +1

    Although beautiful and amazing, it is bizarre for there to be so muvh effort during the war to both steal art and tp recover it. All while millions suffer. War and himans can be so weird.

    • @WeAreLegion-
      @WeAreLegion- Месяц назад +1

      The himans are very wierd, right?

    • @Aspectus
      @Aspectus Месяц назад

      @@WeAreLegion- I agree

  • @prestigevideos2147
    @prestigevideos2147 Месяц назад

    Is good the took what was theirs

  • @drpepperr
    @drpepperr Месяц назад

    Abalone

  • @evansrussell45
    @evansrussell45 Месяц назад +1

    Is there one !??

  • @ianhobbs4984
    @ianhobbs4984 Месяц назад +1

    Being totally honest it's just s bunch of worthless rubbish and a waste of time and effort searching for it.

  • @malasagagaming9614
    @malasagagaming9614 25 дней назад

    He's obsess to art we all know why.

  • @Za7a7aZ
    @Za7a7aZ Месяц назад

    The germans can be blamed and praised for many things

    • @Celisar1
      @Celisar1 Месяц назад

      The Germans designed and craftet that particular thing for the Berlin Castle of the Prussian King Friedrich I.
      It was only later traded to the Russian Tsar.
      Although it then rightfully belonged to the Russian Empire and with that later the Soviet Union it was an important piece of German art.
      The documentary fails completely in pointing that out.

  • @phonex7924
    @phonex7924 Месяц назад

    🇵🇭

  • @zhearr
    @zhearr 19 дней назад +1

    it wasnt stolen because the makers are the germans

  • @rlopez11-11
    @rlopez11-11 28 дней назад +1

    Amber is the most dangerous thing according to the Jurassic Park movie. Amber and prehistoric mosquitoes 🦟 lead to the collapse of the Costa Rican theme park of to which sent ripples of fear all throughout the world of Hollywood motion picture movie industry fans and their $13-$40 delicious buttered popcorn mongering family members.

  • @pekertimulia125
    @pekertimulia125 Месяц назад

    Actually the only and one only

  • @pekertimulia125
    @pekertimulia125 Месяц назад +1

    Djakarta Magna-Charta

  • @wonderwond
    @wonderwond 22 дня назад

    russia has it

  • @LuckyClovers
    @LuckyClovers Месяц назад +3

    USA ❤

    • @heikkijhautanen4576
      @heikkijhautanen4576 Месяц назад +1

      Canada ❤

    • @G-Man-half-life
      @G-Man-half-life Месяц назад +1

      ⁠​⁠​⁠NORTH KOREA ❤️

    • @PlayNiceFolks
      @PlayNiceFolks Месяц назад +1

      ​@@heikkijhautanen4576
      Not Europe, Not Asia, and definitely not South America...we can all agree on that

    • @PlayNiceFolks
      @PlayNiceFolks Месяц назад +3

      ​@@G-Man-half-life
      Mars.

    • @AngelicaRodriguez-ds4xp
      @AngelicaRodriguez-ds4xp Месяц назад

      Why don't they use psychics to find the amber room with remote viewing.

  • @cagg2927
    @cagg2927 Месяц назад +5

    Israelis seem to have picked up from the 1930s germans

    • @PlayNiceFolks
      @PlayNiceFolks Месяц назад +4

      That's not technically true.

    • @keithfrost1190
      @keithfrost1190 Месяц назад +4

      @@PlayNiceFolks No, but they've learnt a lot from them!

    • @cagg2927
      @cagg2927 Месяц назад

      @@PlayNiceFolks theft, genocide and media manipulation. Id say they outdid them

    • @robertscheinost179
      @robertscheinost179 Месяц назад

      @@keithfrost1190 They were good students.

  • @rerun8950
    @rerun8950 28 дней назад

    It’s the Astrodome in Houston. Problem solved

  • @nobodycancrossit1379
    @nobodycancrossit1379 Месяц назад

    Probably somewhere in Israel