Treasure hunters nation they convey constitute Hitler's most valuable lost treasure
Authorities convey greenlighted an expedition inwards a German linguistic communication cave complex to search for $255million worth of treasure from Russia's Amber room, which was looted past times Nazis during World War II.
Authorities convey greenlighted an expedition inwards a German linguistic communication cave complex to search for $255million worth of treasure from Russia's Amber room, which was looted past times Nazis during World War II.
A trio of aging sleuths - homeopath Leonhard Blume, 73, scientist Günter Eckardt, 67, together with georadar specialist Peter Lohr, 71 - are convinced the missing Amber Room of the Russian Tsars lies inwards the Prince's Cave inwards the Hartenstein hills nigh Dresden.
Third Reich scientists used the cave complex during the nation of war - but all records of what went on at that topographic point convey mysteriously vanished from local archives.
Lohr used radar imaging to discovery subway booby traps together with what seem to survive bunkers nether the soil.
He scanned the colina inwards September later on claiming that a 'reliable source' told him of the missing treasure's whereabouts inwards 2001.
'The hideout is subway is higher upwardly the railway line, where inwards Apr 1945 a prepare from Königsberg was stopped,' he said. Königsberg, immediately Kaliningrad belonging to Russia, was formerly the upper-case missive of the alphabet of East Prussia where the Amber Room was in 1 lawsuit stored.
He also said he has prove that treasure belonging to the final monarch of Imperial Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany - Kaiser Wilhelm II who went into exile inwards The Netherlands inwards 1918 later on his defeat inwards WW1 - is stored inwards the complex.
Eckardt said; 'We discovered on a tree traces where steel ropes were used to haul upwardly crates. Georadar together with dowsing measurements disclose a a arrangement of hole-and-corner tunnels beneath the cave arrangement itself.'
Crafted merely out of amber, gilded together with precious stones the Amber Room was a masterpiece of baroque fine art together with widely regarded equally the world's most of import fine art treasure.
The loot is estimated to survive worth at to the lowest degree $255million on the opened upwardly market.
The Amber Room consists of panels containing half dozen tonnes of amber resin, took 10 years to consummate together with is valued at some £200million inwards today's money.
Peter the Great received the room equally a gift from the King of Prussia inwards 1716 together with brought it to his novel capital, St Petersburg.
The 16-feet of jigsaw-puzzle mode panels were constructed of to a greater extent than than 100,000 perfectly fitted pieces of amber.
In 1755, it was moved to the Catherine Palace at Tsarkoe Selo, 17 miles S of the Imperial Russian capital.
In 1941, the approaching Nazi regular army surrounded the city, thus known past times its Soviet advert of Leningrad.
Tsarkoe Selo was 1 of the outlying areas occupied past times the Germans.
They packed the amber panels inwards 27 crates together with shipped them to Germany, where they vanished.
Dozens of theories convey been seat forwards for their whereabouts together with inwards some cases, millions spent trying to unearth the treasure, but equally silent null has been found.
[dailymail.co.uk] [Pictured above, a restoration of the Amber Room in Catherine Palace inwards St. Petersburg]