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Polish divers found in the Baltic Sea the remains of a German steamship from World War II in almost intact condition. The discovery could help solve the mystery of the legendary amber room for decades.
It may be one of the most interesting wrecks in the Baltic Sea.
According to a diving team called Baltictech, the Karlsruhe tomb is 88 meters deep, tens of kilometers north of the shores of Ustka, Poland. Military vehicles, porcelain and sealed boxes were found in the ship’s hold.
It seems that after several months of searching, we have finally found the remains of the steamship Karlsruhe. “
Baltictech wrote on Facebook, that they also shared an underwater photo of a military vehicle in obvious condition.
Divers were able to access World War II documents detailing the ship’s fate and then searched for more than a year for the wreck, which they said was “one of the most interesting and unexplored stories yet in the depths of the Baltic Sea.” .
Only 113 survived the disaster
According to documents shown to The Associated Press, Karlsruhe was built in 1905 in Bremerhaven, northwestern Germany.
Towards the end of World War II
steam was involved in Operation Hannibal,
which was intended to evacuate the local German population, as well as the closed divisions of the territory of former East and West Prussia and Kurland, which was threatened by the siege of the Red Army.
The steamer, carrying soldiers, rail workers, nearly 900 civilians and hundreds of tons of cargo, joined a convoy to Germany
when it was bombed on April 13, 1945 and sank in about three minutes.
According to German naval documents, a German report intercepted by the British, and survivor reports, only 113 of the more than 1,000 passengers were rescued.
It may be that Karlsruhe carried the treasures of the legendary amber room
The discovery of Karlsruhe is greatly enhanced by the fact that, according to explorers, it can help solve the mystery of the famous amber room for decades.
The treasures of the amber room, also called the eighth wonder of the world, of the Tsarskoye Selo palace near Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg)
He was kidnapped by the Nazis in WWII, who have not emerged since.
It owes its name to the magnificent amber wall coverings that King Frederick William I of Prussia gave to Russian Tsar Peter I in 1716.
In 1941, German troops brought the treasures from the amber room to Königsberg (now Kaliningrad), which were later tracked during the war.
Numerous conspiracy theories circulate about their whereabouts, and several, mostly art treasure hunters, sought them out, including the East German secret police, the Stasi.
According to Baltictech, maybe Karlsruhe was transporting the treasures from the amber room,
the steamer left Königsberg in 1945. Karlsruhe is also the name of a German warship sunk in World War II, the remains of which were recently discovered off the coast of Norway.
(Sources: MTI / AP / Reuters / dpa / PAP)
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