![]() The theory is based on the decades-old testimony of a former Nazi guard, who claimed he saw heavily armored trucks unload a large cargo into the bunker near the end of World War II. There, he speculates, may lie the storied the Amber Room, which could now be worth $140–500 million. That could be about to change, however, if a Polish museum’s dig at a complex of Nazi bunkers proves fruitful.īartlomiej Plebanczyk, director of the Mamerki Museum, which owns the complex located near the Polish town Wegorzewo, believes that there are hidden underground chambers amid the bunkers that the Nazis used to store looted art. ![]() It’s been called the Eighth Wonder of the World, but the gold trimmed, gem-encrusted Amber Room, constructed between 17 for the palace of King Frederick I of Prussia and given as a gift to Peter the Great, hasn’t been seen since World War II, after it was seized by the Nazis during the 1941 invasion of St. ![]()
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