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WWII The Karlsruhe steamer located, possibly contains Russian tsarist treasure
 [Guardian] Polish divers say they have found the wreck of a German second world war ship that may help solve a decades-old mystery about the whereabouts of the Amber Room, an ornate chamber that the Nazis looted from a tsarist palace in Russia.Decorated with amber and gold, the room was part of the Catherine Palace near St Petersburg. It was last seen in Königsberg, then a Baltic port city in Germany but now the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad. The Karlsruhe steamer set sail from Königsberg in 1945 with a heavy cargo before Soviet warplanes sank it off the coast of Poland. Divers from the Baltictech group say they have found the wreck of the Karlsruhe. "We have been looking for the wreckage since last year when we realised there could be the most interesting, undiscovered story lying at the bottom of the Baltic Sea," Tomasz Stachura, one of the divers, said in a statement. Weather Channel video found here. Posted by: Besoeker 2020-10-03 |
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