Ep. #143 - What If You Built An Amber Room? (Eighth Wonder, Nazi Treasure)

The What If? Podcast

Spencer Wirth-Davis & Ryan Kopperud

Society & Culture

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

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.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the World Hift Podcast with Spencer Worth, Davis, and Ryan Corpere.
0:12.6	Oh my God.
0:13.4	That's Australian.
0:15.7	Hi.
0:16.4	That's Australian.
0:17.7	Is that Australian lady slash our good friend of the show, Lydia Eliza?
0:22.1	It might be. Fantastic. We may have made a bunch of new openings. Oh no. Sounders for the show.
0:30.7	I'm nervous for what I'm in for. Well, I'll keep trying them out from week to week.
0:34.7	I'm nervous. See if we can settle on one. Okay, okay.
0:38.2	Or we can rotate through.
0:40.0	I like rotating.
0:41.2	I don't think we can have her having a bad Australian accent at the beginning of every episode of having her going, oh, that's Australian.
0:47.2	I mean, we could.
0:49.1	We could do anything we want.
0:50.5	We got many options, bro.
0:51.9	We can do anything we want, like have neighborhood night in instead of neighborhood night out.
0:55.6	What's up?
0:56.3	Fuck them.
0:56.9	Is your dog participating?
0:59.1	My dog is not participating in neighborhood night out right now.
1:02.0	Dad dog's ghost block.
1:06.3	Wow.
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