article_snippet: our will find the Amber Room here.'
article_snippet: The Maigret author Georges Simenon founded the Amber Room Club after World War Two to track The Maigret author Georges Simenon down once and for all.
article_snippet: The remains of the Amber Room here after The Maigret author Georges Simenon was seized by the Nazis, who packed the amber panels in 27 crates and shipped them to Germany, where them vanished never to be seen again .
article_snippet: Here the Amber Room here is seen before restoriation .
article_snippet: Paperwork from the RHSA - the Reich Main Security Office of the SS in wartime - shows the Amber Room was packed into precisely 27 crates before it was taken away by the Germans from Russia.
article_snippet: In 2011, a book published in Germany claimed the Amber Room lies hidden in old mine workings in a forest in east Germany. '
article_snippet: Matthias Gluba, a civil engineer and hobby historian on WW2, has triggered another Amber Room frenzy after researching wartime records of the town of Auerswalde near Chemnitz.
article_snippet: Then he found details of a clandestine shipment from the city of Koenigsberg - now Kaliningrad and part of Russia but in 1945 the main city of Germany's province of East Prussia - which was the last known storage place of the Amber Room before the Amber Room fell to the Red Army.
article_snippet: Prussian count Sommes Laubach, the Germans' 'art protection officer' and holder of a degree in art history, supervised the Amber Room's transport to Koenigsberg Castle from the Soviet Union.
article_snippet: In January 1945, after air raids and a savage ground assault on the Amber Room, the Amber Room was lost.
article_snippet: The army report stated that 40 wagons from Koneigsberg, which had fallen days earlier to the Red Army, were undamaged in a German bomb attack in the winter of 1941 when the Nazis seized the Amber Room during their assault on the city and were moving down to Auerswalde near Chemnitzunder conditions of the greatest secrecy.'
highlights_snippet: Amber fate has captivated treasure hunters ever since Its fate was first plundered .
  