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  • 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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КОМЕНТАРІ • 189

  • @Montana_horseman
    @Montana_horseman Місяць тому +145

    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 Місяць тому +15

      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 Місяць тому +14

      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 Місяць тому +10

      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 Місяць тому +13

      @@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 Місяць тому +4

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

  • @chrismc8000
    @chrismc8000 Місяць тому +34

    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…

  • @Za7a7aZ
    @Za7a7aZ Місяць тому +18

    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 19 днів тому

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

  • @AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg
    @AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg 29 днів тому +7

    The Amber Room exists, its at Reich headquarters in Argentina

  • @loumcast
    @loumcast Місяць тому +33

    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 Місяць тому +1

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

    • @Kidraver555
      @Kidraver555 Місяць тому +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 Місяць тому +2

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

    • @trevordavis1278
      @trevordavis1278 Місяць тому +1

      Who are u

    • @kingtut4509
      @kingtut4509 Місяць тому +1

      WHO ARE YOU?

  • @karlshuler1011
    @karlshuler1011 Місяць тому +17

    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.

  • @user-mh8vy2ui3s
    @user-mh8vy2ui3s Місяць тому +21

    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 Місяць тому +7

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

    • @AAlvarez14520
      @AAlvarez14520 Місяць тому +7

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

    • @sarah2544
      @sarah2544 Місяць тому

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

  • @Cool5380
    @Cool5380 Місяць тому +6

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

  • @carlabonnet7314
    @carlabonnet7314 Місяць тому +7

    So many things were hidden in mines and caves

  • @loumcast
    @loumcast Місяць тому +30

    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 29 днів тому +4

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

    • @johnphillips8922
      @johnphillips8922 4 дні тому

      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.

  • @Celisar1
    @Celisar1 29 днів тому +4

    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 16 днів тому

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

  • @grimmertwin2148
    @grimmertwin2148 Місяць тому +6

    The Vatican has it probably

    • @danwolf307
      @danwolf307 Місяць тому

      Why was it full of children?

  • @justinfuller8803
    @justinfuller8803 Місяць тому +4

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

    • @user-tt8xf9td6b
      @user-tt8xf9td6b Місяць тому

      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.

  • @chadbennett3998
    @chadbennett3998 9 днів тому

    Watching from Mackinac Island Michigan

  • @MacAdam-itsme
    @MacAdam-itsme Місяць тому

    excellent

  • @adambane1719
    @adambane1719 Місяць тому +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 Місяць тому +4

      What’s your point?

    • @paullewis2413
      @paullewis2413 Місяць тому +3

      @@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 Місяць тому +4

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

    • @adambane1719
      @adambane1719 Місяць тому

      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 Місяць тому +4

      @@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 ??

  • @charlieoscar09
    @charlieoscar09 Місяць тому +5

    The Amber Room has gone up in smoke

  • @apantrakis
    @apantrakis 24 дні тому

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

  • @timothynauss8940
    @timothynauss8940 24 дні тому

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

  • @katherinecollins4685
    @katherinecollins4685 12 днів тому

    Presented well

  • @cjason123
    @cjason123 Місяць тому +1

    I'm guessing amber melts/burns when heated?

  • @spscorse
    @spscorse Місяць тому +1

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

  • @AllIsWellaus
    @AllIsWellaus Місяць тому +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 Місяць тому +1

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

    • @devriestown
      @devriestown 22 дні тому

      I'm from New Zealand 🇳🇿 interesting

  • @melissataylor9479
    @melissataylor9479 Місяць тому +4

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

  • @richcooper6989
    @richcooper6989 4 дні тому

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

  • @flashladderacrobat
    @flashladderacrobat Місяць тому +1

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

  • @markholditt3342
    @markholditt3342 Місяць тому +1

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

  • @gfurstnsu
    @gfurstnsu Місяць тому +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.😂

  • @NikonFstopper
    @NikonFstopper 19 днів тому +1

    Could secretly be at the Vatican!

  • @carenkurdjinian5413
    @carenkurdjinian5413 23 дні тому

    Interesting………🌞

  • @whatadollslife
    @whatadollslife Місяць тому +3

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

  • @nanabutner
    @nanabutner Місяць тому +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.

  • @user-jd4kx4ff9q
    @user-jd4kx4ff9q 14 днів тому

    I think I could tell you where to find it

  • @danielleriverin3117
    @danielleriverin3117 Місяць тому +3

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

    • @keithfrost1190
      @keithfrost1190 Місяць тому

      If you believe that, you'll believe anything!

    • @WeAreLegion-
      @WeAreLegion- Місяць тому

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

  • @gonefishing167
    @gonefishing167 Місяць тому +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 🙏🙏🙏🙏👵🇦🇺

  • @user-jd4kx4ff9q
    @user-jd4kx4ff9q 14 днів тому

    Less chance of bombers attack a convoy

  • @steveh-m665
    @steveh-m665 Місяць тому +1

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

    • @amandaskywalker7331
      @amandaskywalker7331 16 днів тому

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

  • @DrinkTheKoolAid62
    @DrinkTheKoolAid62 Місяць тому

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

  • @user-jd4kx4ff9q
    @user-jd4kx4ff9q 14 днів тому

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

  • @dwardodwardo643
    @dwardodwardo643 Місяць тому

    All this history of searching, was nothing else found?

  • @chris.asi_romeo
    @chris.asi_romeo Місяць тому +2

    Indiana Jones

  • @chriscarrol9373
    @chriscarrol9373 Місяць тому

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

  • @talltrees358
    @talltrees358 23 дні тому

    Like finding a unicorn.

  • @crizzonet
    @crizzonet 3 дні тому

    TL;DW - he didn’t find it

  • @acaciablossom558
    @acaciablossom558 Місяць тому +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 Місяць тому

      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 Місяць тому

      Complete nonsense

  • @billysewardgardening
    @billysewardgardening 22 дні тому

    old world tartartian treasure

  • @Picks_Productions
    @Picks_Productions Місяць тому

    Andre the Giant died ages ago.

  • @francisklambauer144
    @francisklambauer144 29 днів тому

    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 Місяць тому

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

  • @grzegorzrokita2330
    @grzegorzrokita2330 Місяць тому

    W Polsce jest gdzieś ukryty złoty pociąg..

  • @Za7a7aZ
    @Za7a7aZ Місяць тому +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

  • @Izzymohammed1
    @Izzymohammed1 26 днів тому

    JUST WOW❤❤❤👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

  • @Ai-he1dp
    @Ai-he1dp Місяць тому

    If it were found who would it belong to?

    • @JoseAntonio-oy9ll
      @JoseAntonio-oy9ll Місяць тому +1

      Russia.

    • @Ai-he1dp
      @Ai-he1dp Місяць тому

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

    • @JoColours
      @JoColours Місяць тому

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

    • @Celisar1
      @Celisar1 29 днів тому

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

  • @PeterJessenDK
    @PeterJessenDK 21 день тому

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

  • @mohammedsaysrashid3587
    @mohammedsaysrashid3587 Місяць тому

    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

  • @ruthqueen6282
    @ruthqueen6282 22 дні тому

    It is in Antarctica.

  • @grzegorzrokita2330
    @grzegorzrokita2330 Місяць тому +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 29 днів тому

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

  • @phillipkennedy508
    @phillipkennedy508 5 днів тому

    Did ayone bother to look at The Vatican??

  • @markgarin6355
    @markgarin6355 Місяць тому +1

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

  • @prestigevideos2147
    @prestigevideos2147 29 днів тому

    Is good the took what was theirs

  • @Aspectus
    @Aspectus Місяць тому +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- Місяць тому +1

      The himans are very wierd, right?

    • @Aspectus
      @Aspectus Місяць тому

      @@WeAreLegion- I agree

  • @vadusnisky31
    @vadusnisky31 29 днів тому

    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.

  • @billysewardgardening
    @billysewardgardening 22 дні тому

    founded

  • @Naitomea215
    @Naitomea215 Місяць тому +2

    They're looking for Andre the Giant?

  • @drpepperr
    @drpepperr 24 дні тому

    Abalone

  • @robertbennett9949
    @robertbennett9949 20 днів тому

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

  • @evansrussell45
    @evansrussell45 Місяць тому +1

    Is there one !??

  • @ianhobbs4984
    @ianhobbs4984 27 днів тому +1

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

  • @Za7a7aZ
    @Za7a7aZ Місяць тому

    The germans can be blamed and praised for many things

    • @Celisar1
      @Celisar1 29 днів тому

      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.

  • @malasagagaming9614
    @malasagagaming9614 16 днів тому

    He's obsess to art we all know why.

  • @phonex7924
    @phonex7924 Місяць тому

    🇵🇭

  • @rlopez11-11
    @rlopez11-11 19 днів тому +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 Місяць тому +1

    Djakarta Magna-Charta

  • @pekertimulia125
    @pekertimulia125 Місяць тому

    Actually the only and one only

  • @wonderwond
    @wonderwond 14 днів тому

    russia has it

  • @LuckyClovers
    @LuckyClovers Місяць тому +3

    USA ❤

    • @heikkijhautanen4576
      @heikkijhautanen4576 Місяць тому +1

      Canada ❤

    • @G-Man-half-life
      @G-Man-half-life Місяць тому +1

      ⁠​⁠​⁠NORTH KOREA ❤️

    • @PlayNiceFolks
      @PlayNiceFolks Місяць тому +1

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

    • @PlayNiceFolks
      @PlayNiceFolks Місяць тому +3

      ​@@G-Man-half-life
      Mars.

    • @AngelicaRodriguez-ds4xp
      @AngelicaRodriguez-ds4xp Місяць тому

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

  • @zhearr
    @zhearr 11 днів тому +1

    it wasnt stolen because the makers are the germans

  • @cagg2927
    @cagg2927 Місяць тому +5

    Israelis seem to have picked up from the 1930s germans

    • @PlayNiceFolks
      @PlayNiceFolks Місяць тому +4

      That's not technically true.

    • @keithfrost1190
      @keithfrost1190 Місяць тому +4

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

    • @cagg2927
      @cagg2927 Місяць тому

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

    • @robertscheinost179
      @robertscheinost179 Місяць тому

      @@keithfrost1190 They were good students.

  • @rerun8950
    @rerun8950 19 днів тому

    It’s the Astrodome in Houston. Problem solved

  • @nobodycancrossit1379
    @nobodycancrossit1379 24 дні тому

    Probably somewhere in Israel