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Amber Room treasure found in German cavern
London (PTI): Treasure hunters have found a huge haul of looted Russian gold in an underground cavern in Germany, which they claim is part of the Amber Room collection stashed away by the Nazis in the dying days of World War II.
The discovery of an estimated two tonnes of gold was made last weekend in the man-made cavern almost 20 metres underground near the village of Deutschneudorf on Germany's border with the Czech Republic. Mayor of Deutschneudorf Heinz-Peter Haustein, who is leading the search team, said the cavern had not yet been reached but tests showed what was inside was "definitely" precious metals.
"It's gold, may be silver. We expect it to be either gold from the Amber Room or gold that would give us clues to another hiding place," British newspaper 'The Daily Telegraph' quoted Haustein as saying.
The Amber Room was an 18th century chamber inside the Catherine Palace in Leningrad, now St Petersburg, that was made out of amber panels backed by gold leaf. It was stolen in 1941 during the Nazi invasion and taken to Kaliningrad where it was lost in 1945 following Allied Forces' bombing.
Haustein arrived in Deutschneudorf on a tip off from a German friend whose late father, a signaller in the Luftwaffe, had hoarded documents containing the co-ordinates to and locations where the Nazis supposedly hid gold and diamonds at the end of the Second World War. One of those sets of co-ordinates was the "exact" location of the dig, he said. The documents also contained warnings of booby traps.
There have been hundreds of theories about the fate of Amber Room treasure. Some historians claim it was destroyed in Knisgburg but there is speculation that it was loaded onto a submarine which was sunk in the Baltic Sea by the Russians.
London (PTI): Treasure hunters have found a huge haul of looted Russian gold in an underground cavern in Germany, which they claim is part of the Amber Room collection stashed away by the Nazis in the dying days of World War II.
The discovery of an estimated two tonnes of gold was made last weekend in the man-made cavern almost 20 metres underground near the village of Deutschneudorf on Germany's border with the Czech Republic. Mayor of Deutschneudorf Heinz-Peter Haustein, who is leading the search team, said the cavern had not yet been reached but tests showed what was inside was "definitely" precious metals.
"It's gold, may be silver. We expect it to be either gold from the Amber Room or gold that would give us clues to another hiding place," British newspaper 'The Daily Telegraph' quoted Haustein as saying.
The Amber Room was an 18th century chamber inside the Catherine Palace in Leningrad, now St Petersburg, that was made out of amber panels backed by gold leaf. It was stolen in 1941 during the Nazi invasion and taken to Kaliningrad where it was lost in 1945 following Allied Forces' bombing.
Haustein arrived in Deutschneudorf on a tip off from a German friend whose late father, a signaller in the Luftwaffe, had hoarded documents containing the co-ordinates to and locations where the Nazis supposedly hid gold and diamonds at the end of the Second World War. One of those sets of co-ordinates was the "exact" location of the dig, he said. The documents also contained warnings of booby traps.
There have been hundreds of theories about the fate of Amber Room treasure. Some historians claim it was destroyed in Knisgburg but there is speculation that it was loaded onto a submarine which was sunk in the Baltic Sea by the Russians.
