We all know of there’s been warring over the years between Germany and Russia. But did you know that there’s another war between these two countries over one specific artifact born in the 1700’s? Imagine a room constructed almost entirely of amber, from floor to ceiling, with gold foil, mirrors, murals on the ceiling, statues of angels, and more. This was constructed in Berlin, Prussia, moved outside of St. Petersburg, pilfered by the Nazis in their invasion of Russia, and then – well, and then we don’t know…
This week on The What If? Podcast, we discuss how the back and forth of this $500,000,000 treasure manifested over the years, and the theories about just where it may have ended up.
