The Hunt For The "8th Wonder Of The World" Stolen By The Nazis | Myth Hunters | Timeline

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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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  • 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.

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

      @siliconwolverine@siliconwolverineАй бұрын
    • 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.

      @Pack.Leader@Pack.LeaderАй бұрын
    • 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 🙏🙏🙏👵🇦🇺

      @gonefishing167@gonefishing167Ай бұрын
    • @@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_horsemanАй бұрын
    • @@Pack.Leader You're very welcome and nice to see such a kind reply from you. 👍

      @Montana_horseman@Montana_horsemanАй бұрын
  • 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…

    @chrismc8000@chrismc8000Ай бұрын
    • YES it is....WHY???

      @donahunt832@donahunt832Ай бұрын
    • Tell that to Putin, who does what now? ah, yes - war...

      @1sonyzz@1sonyzz4 күн бұрын
  • 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.

    @karlshuler1011@karlshuler1011Ай бұрын
    • Give ya $3

      @koboskolors@koboskolorsАй бұрын
    • I got my autographed first edition bible at a garage sale, signed by JC and the boy's twelve

      @AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cgАй бұрын
    • 😂

      @donahunt832@donahunt832Ай бұрын
    • @@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg 🤣🤣

      @karlshuler1011@karlshuler1011Ай бұрын
    • Please take 1 panel & be on Antiques Roadshow

      @gaylynnmasceri7907@gaylynnmasceri7907Ай бұрын
  • When you give people unlimited power they just can not handle it. Whatever their personal desires are will grow towards the extreme

    @Za7a7aZ@Za7a7aZАй бұрын
    • Like having dignity, private inner self and basic universal human rights enforcement? SCUMBAGS. WAR CRIMINAL SYNDICATE.

      @rlopez11-11@rlopez11-1127 күн бұрын
  • 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.

    @loumcast@loumcastАй бұрын
    • It's material objects. Forget about it . Save your soul instead.

      @splitman1129@splitman1129Ай бұрын
    • 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.

      @Kidraver555@Kidraver555Ай бұрын
    • I was there in 2005 and it is by far the most beautiful place!!!

      @kingtut4509@kingtut4509Ай бұрын
    • Who are u

      @trevordavis1278@trevordavis1278Ай бұрын
    • WHO ARE YOU?

      @kingtut4509@kingtut4509Ай бұрын
  • 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!

    @Celisar1@Celisar1Ай бұрын
    • They also frequently refer to the Soviets as "the Russians" ...

      @amandaskywalker7331@amandaskywalker733124 күн бұрын
    • It is a well known fact that a certain species loves to fiddle with History

      @user-Rocket-Fest@user-Rocket-Fest13 сағат бұрын
  • The Amber Room exists, its at Reich headquarters in Argentina

    @AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cgАй бұрын
    • Or in Antarctica

      @ruthqueen6282@ruthqueen6282Ай бұрын
    • 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.

      @bronkonovak6555@bronkonovak65554 күн бұрын
    • Can confirm been there and seen it

      @user-bx1dq4oy6c@user-bx1dq4oy6cКүн бұрын
    • 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..

      @bronkonovak6555@bronkonovak6555Күн бұрын
  • 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.

    @loumcast@loumcastАй бұрын
    • Please understand that Amber is combustible it is a fuel it doesn't just melt

      @eyetrollin710@eyetrollin710Ай бұрын
    • 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.

      @johnphillips8922@johnphillips892212 күн бұрын
    • @@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.

      @TheOmegakix@TheOmegakix4 күн бұрын
  • Yes I wonder why the Wilhelm Gustloff is cut and blown to bits why could that be?

    @Cool5380@Cool5380Ай бұрын
  • The Vatican has it probably

    @grimmertwin2148@grimmertwin2148Ай бұрын
    • Why was it full of children?

      @danwolf307@danwolf307Ай бұрын
  • So many things were hidden in mines and caves

    @carlabonnet7314@carlabonnet7314Ай бұрын
  • I hope he or someone finds that artistic miracle. I know it was replaced, but the antique room needs to arise from the darkness.

    @user-mh8vy2ui3s@user-mh8vy2ui3sАй бұрын
    • Unfortunately if they do find it, the amber is probably destroyed due to the atmospheric conditions of where it is located. 😿

      @neighborhoodcatlady6094@neighborhoodcatlady6094Ай бұрын
    • @@neighborhoodcatlady6094or in some rich persons mansion & told no one.

      @AAlvarez14520@AAlvarez14520Ай бұрын
    • 😢Aw2😂😂😂😢lol I'll​@@neighborhoodcatlady6094

      @sarah2544@sarah2544Ай бұрын
  • Watching from Mackinac Island Michigan

    @chadbennett3998@chadbennett399816 күн бұрын
  • I swear that the Amber Room is hidden in the Mystery Train that's underneath the mountain in a dark secret tunnel.

    @robertafierro5592@robertafierro5592Күн бұрын
  • Have you ever been to any museum in Britain or France ... ?? ....because they are absoloutely FILLED with someone elses, "priceless works of art"

    @adambane1719@adambane1719Ай бұрын
    • What’s your point?

      @masterzimny@masterzimnyАй бұрын
    • @@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.

      @paullewis2413@paullewis2413Ай бұрын
    • Oddly a great deal of those artifacts were stolen robbing graves et cetera

      @tenaci-et-rip-eam@tenaci-et-rip-eamАй бұрын
    • 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@adambane1719Ай бұрын
    • @@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 ??

      @adambane1719@adambane1719Ай бұрын
  • excellent

    @MacAdam-itsme@MacAdam-itsmeАй бұрын
  • Interesting documentary. The steam train shown therein was a Highland Railway Jones goods engine with cattle wagons. Strange inclusion.

    @justinfuller8803@justinfuller8803Ай бұрын
    • 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.

      @user-tt8xf9td6b@user-tt8xf9td6bАй бұрын
  • Presented well

    @katherinecollins4685@katherinecollins468519 күн бұрын
  • What about the amber room room stories out of Poland at the maraki bunkers near the wolfs layer ????

    @timothynauss8940@timothynauss8940Ай бұрын
  • Who knows the epic music uses during the 4.30 minute, when is shown the amber room ?

    @apantrakis@apantrakisАй бұрын
  • I'm guessing amber melts/burns when heated?

    @cjason123@cjason123Ай бұрын
  • The Amber Room has gone up in smoke

    @charlieoscar09@charlieoscar09Ай бұрын
    • An incandescent amber flame

      @AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cgАй бұрын
  • It is where it always was. It's just been boarded over

    @markholditt3342@markholditt3342Ай бұрын
  • 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.

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

      @gonefishing167@gonefishing167Ай бұрын
    • I'm from New Zealand 🇳🇿 interesting

      @devriestown@devriestown29 күн бұрын
  • Did they get backers ? And look behind the colopsed part?

    @richcooper6989@richcooper698911 күн бұрын
  • It’s buried in a mine with a lot of other Loot

    @spscorse@spscorseАй бұрын
  • Huge panels aren’t in some crack in the ground.

    @melissataylor9479@melissataylor9479Ай бұрын
    • Where are they??

      @WeAreLegion-@WeAreLegion-Ай бұрын
  • 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.

    @nanabutner@nanabutnerАй бұрын
  • Interesting………🌞

    @carenkurdjinian5413@carenkurdjinian5413Ай бұрын
  • It could have been on the Willhem Gustlof, sank by a Soviet Sub.

    @flashladderacrobat@flashladderacrobatАй бұрын
  • 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 🙏🙏🙏🙏👵🇦🇺

    @gonefishing167@gonefishing167Ай бұрын
  • Could secretly be at the Vatican!

    @NikonFstopper@NikonFstopper26 күн бұрын
    • Or in one of Putins Palaces

      @tonykulikovsky@tonykulikovsky15 күн бұрын
  • One thing is you can't never hide the truth! ❣️

    @danielleriverin3117@danielleriverin3117Ай бұрын
    • If you believe that, you'll believe anything!

      @keithfrost1190@keithfrost1190Ай бұрын
    • How many ET species are on earth? since you know all truths...

      @WeAreLegion-@WeAreLegion-Ай бұрын
  • I think I could tell you where to find it

    @user-jd4kx4ff9q@user-jd4kx4ff9q22 күн бұрын
  • 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.

    @prawnstar9213@prawnstar92132 күн бұрын
  • 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.

    @acaciablossom558@acaciablossom558Ай бұрын
    • 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....

      @moodybluesgurl@moodybluesgurlАй бұрын
    • Complete nonsense

      @vcom2327@vcom2327Ай бұрын
  • I've got it, I use it a mud/laundry room, ha, peasants.

    @jameswisecarver@jameswisecarver2 күн бұрын
  • 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.😂

    @gfurstnsu@gfurstnsuАй бұрын
  • 38:23 is that Putin in the group???

    @whatadollslife@whatadollslifeАй бұрын
    • Yes.

      @jean-baptistepoquelin5116@jean-baptistepoquelin5116Ай бұрын
    • Yep

      @IndependantMind168@IndependantMind16823 күн бұрын
    • That is his fajer

      @eriksam1132@eriksam113215 күн бұрын
  • Is this where the first amber alert came from???? LoL

    @chriscarrol9373@chriscarrol9373Ай бұрын
  • How silly! Who took the color pics of the amber room?! 🤔 Ask them where it is! 😂

    @steveh-m665@steveh-m665Ай бұрын
    • They recreated it 30 years ago - that is what they are showing. And color photography existed before 1941 you know.

      @amandaskywalker7331@amandaskywalker733124 күн бұрын
  • All this history of searching, was nothing else found?

    @dwardodwardo643@dwardodwardo643Ай бұрын
  • how tf do you move a whole room

    @yotagang3705@yotagang37053 күн бұрын
  • Less chance of bombers attack a convoy

    @user-jd4kx4ff9q@user-jd4kx4ff9q22 күн бұрын
  • Believing the Amber Room still exists is, sadly, pure romanticism

    @DrinkTheKoolAid62@DrinkTheKoolAid62Ай бұрын
  • Indiana Jones

    @chris.asi_romeo@chris.asi_romeoАй бұрын
  • It is in Antarctica.

    @ruthqueen6282@ruthqueen6282Ай бұрын
  • 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!

    @francisklambauer144@francisklambauer144Ай бұрын
  • old world tartartian treasure

    @billysewardgardening@billysewardgardening29 күн бұрын
  • 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

    @mohammedsaysrashid3587@mohammedsaysrashid3587Ай бұрын
    • What??? You make no sense.

      @brendamcdonall5798@brendamcdonall5798Ай бұрын
  • And amber was stolen from our country, amber came from baltic sea

    @1sonyzz@1sonyzz4 күн бұрын
  • JUST WOW❤❤❤👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

    @Izzymohammed1@Izzymohammed1Ай бұрын
  • TL;DW - he didn’t find it

    @crizzonet@crizzonet11 күн бұрын
  • Like finding a unicorn.

    @talltrees358@talltrees358Ай бұрын
  • Some would say it's best to let sleeping dogs lie. I have done alot of bad things.

    @chriscarrol9373@chriscarrol9373Ай бұрын
  • If your tips say they took it south they really took it north

    @user-jd4kx4ff9q@user-jd4kx4ff9q22 күн бұрын
  • They're looking for Andre the Giant?

    @Naitomea215@Naitomea215Ай бұрын
  • W Polsce jest gdzieś ukryty złoty pociąg..

    @grzegorzrokita2330@grzegorzrokita2330Ай бұрын
    • Made from jew booty gold

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

    @PeterJessenDK@PeterJessenDK28 күн бұрын
  • If it were found who would it belong to?

    @Ai-he1dp@Ai-he1dpАй бұрын
    • Russia.

      @JoseAntonio-oy9ll@JoseAntonio-oy9llАй бұрын
    • @@JoseAntonio-oy9ll then it's best left where it is....in Germany.

      @Ai-he1dp@Ai-he1dpАй бұрын
    • @@JoseAntonio-oy9ll But the Germans would almost certainly steal it again.

      @JoColours@JoColoursАй бұрын
    • I would say Russia. The Prussian King was an idiot for trading it but done is done.

      @Celisar1@Celisar1Ай бұрын
  • But never found... nothing to see here keep moving

    @markgarin6355@markgarin6355Ай бұрын
  • 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.

    @Aspectus@AspectusАй бұрын
    • The himans are very wierd, right?

      @WeAreLegion-@WeAreLegion-Ай бұрын
    • @@WeAreLegion- I agree

      @Aspectus@AspectusАй бұрын
  • Andre the Giant died ages ago.

    @Picks_Productions@Picks_ProductionsАй бұрын
    • 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”

      @prawnstar9213@prawnstar92132 күн бұрын
  • Did ayone bother to look at The Vatican??

    @phillipkennedy508@phillipkennedy50812 күн бұрын
  • Is there one !??

    @evansrussell45@evansrussell45Ай бұрын
  • 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

    @Za7a7aZ@Za7a7aZАй бұрын
  • 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!

    @grzegorzrokita2330@grzegorzrokita2330Ай бұрын
    • Not 6 million Polish people. 🙄 Please open a history book instead of making such stupid claims.

      @Celisar1@Celisar1Ай бұрын
  • 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.

    @vadusnisky31@vadusnisky31Ай бұрын
  • Is good the took what was theirs

    @prestigevideos2147@prestigevideos2147Ай бұрын
  • founded

    @billysewardgardening@billysewardgardening29 күн бұрын
  • Soviets.......not 'Russians '.

    @robertbennett9949@robertbennett994927 күн бұрын
  • Being totally honest it's just s bunch of worthless rubbish and a waste of time and effort searching for it.

    @ianhobbs4984@ianhobbs4984Ай бұрын
  • Abalone

    @drpepperr@drpepperrАй бұрын
  • Actually the only and one only

    @pekertimulia125@pekertimulia125Ай бұрын
  • Djakarta Magna-Charta

    @pekertimulia125@pekertimulia125Ай бұрын
  • USA ❤

    @LuckyClovers@LuckyCloversАй бұрын
    • Canada ❤

      @heikkijhautanen4576@heikkijhautanen4576Ай бұрын
    • ⁠​⁠​⁠NORTH KOREA ❤️

      @G-Man-half-life@G-Man-half-lifeАй бұрын
    • ​@@heikkijhautanen4576 Not Europe, Not Asia, and definitely not South America...we can all agree on that

      @PlayNiceFolks@PlayNiceFolksАй бұрын
    • ​@@G-Man-half-life Mars.

      @PlayNiceFolks@PlayNiceFolksАй бұрын
    • Why don't they use psychics to find the amber room with remote viewing.

      @AngelicaRodriguez-ds4xp@AngelicaRodriguez-ds4xpАй бұрын
  • The germans can be blamed and praised for many things

    @Za7a7aZ@Za7a7aZАй бұрын
    • 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.

      @Celisar1@Celisar1Ай бұрын
  • He's obsess to art we all know why.

    @malasagagaming9614@malasagagaming961424 күн бұрын
  • 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.

    @rlopez11-11@rlopez11-1127 күн бұрын
    • 🙄

      @rlopez11-11@rlopez11-1115 күн бұрын
  • 🇵🇭

    @phonex7924@phonex7924Ай бұрын
  • russia has it

    @wonderwond@wonderwond22 күн бұрын
  • it wasnt stolen because the makers are the germans

    @zhearr@zhearr18 күн бұрын
  • Israelis seem to have picked up from the 1930s germans

    @cagg2927@cagg2927Ай бұрын
    • That's not technically true.

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

      @keithfrost1190@keithfrost1190Ай бұрын
    • @@PlayNiceFolks theft, genocide and media manipulation. Id say they outdid them

      @cagg2927@cagg2927Ай бұрын
    • @@keithfrost1190 They were good students.

      @robertscheinost179@robertscheinost179Ай бұрын
  • It’s the Astrodome in Houston. Problem solved

    @rerun8950@rerun895027 күн бұрын
  • Probably somewhere in Israel

    @nobodycancrossit1379@nobodycancrossit1379Ай бұрын
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