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Amber Room
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KeyWhat happened to the Amber Room after January 1945?
Most likelyThe crated room burned in Königsberg Castle between 9 and 11 April 1945
What has actually been recovered from the original room?
AnsweredOne Florentine mosaic and one chest of drawers, taken from the room in 1941 by a German soldier, are the only…
KeyWhy did the Soviet Union search for forty years if its own experts said the room had burned?
Most likelyThe leadership knew the room had burned in the Soviet capture but preferred a Nazi theft to a Red Army loss,…