# Scott-Clark 2004: The Amber Room: The Untold Story of the Greatest Hoax of the Twentieth Century

> Catherine Scott-Clark, Adrian Levy, 2004. 4 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The standard account of the archival record and the destruction…

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# The Amber Room: The Untold Story of the Greatest Hoax of the Twentieth Century

Catherine Scott-Clark, Adrian Levy, 2004. _Atlantic Books, London (US edition Walker, "The Fate of the World's Greatest Lost Treasure")_.

The one archive-based investigation. Using Anatoly Kuchumov's private papers in the Central State Archive of Literature and Art, Alexander Brusov's 1945 report, Stasi files and interviews, it concludes that the room burned in Königsberg Castle between 9 and 11 April 1945 and that the Soviet search was kept up for political reasons.

**Amber Room** Book0

## What it's used for here

The standard account of the archival record and the destruction reading; cited here through its Guardian extract and summaries.

## Cited by on this site 4 records

[The leadership knew the room had burned in the Soviet capture but preferred a Nazi theft to a Red Army loss,…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amber-room/answers/ANS0D4N2YP41ST2/the-leadership-knew-the-room-had-burned-in-the-soviet)

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[Scott-Clark and Levy publish their archival investigation](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amber-room/events/EVT0D4N2SSW281F/scott-clark-and-levy-publish-their-archival-investigation)

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[The Amber Room](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amber-room)

The mystery article

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[Why did the Soviet Union search for forty years if its own experts said the room had burned?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amber-room/questions/QST0D4N2THA3RYV/why-did-the-soviet-union-search-for-forty-years-if-its-own)

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## Cite it

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Scott-Clark, C., & Levy, A. (2004). The Amber Room: The Untold Story of the Greatest Hoax of the Twentieth Century. Atlantic Books, London (US edition Walker, "The Fate of the World's Greatest Lost Treasure"). https://kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/adrian-levy/the-amber-room-2
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