Reinhard Gehlen And The Lost Amber Room Poem by Hubert Wilson

Gottfried Wolfram directed amber craftsmen in singular beauty and detail.
Eighth Wonder of the World on an 18th century scale.
Honoring a Prussian-Russian tie.
Laudably given to Peter the Great after catching his eye.
Exhibited in Saint Petersburg's Catherine Palace.
Nazis rushed it to Konigsberg Castle in hasty malice.

Ordered removed by Hitler in late January,1945?
Rarest of treasures in the war to survive?
Gdingen port of departure in a secret assignment?
Aboard doomed ship Wilhelm Gustloff consignment?
Nocturnal Soviet submarine torpedo attack?
Interned with thousands in the Baltic Sea with all crates intact?
Soviet shellings and many a British bombing raid?
Annihilated the castle where the treasure really stayed?
Taken to rumored hidden German site?
In his clandestine flight?
Observing all the resourceful former spymaster of the Eastern Front?
No other in the Cold War could fruitfully continue the hunt?

Reinhard Gehlen (4-3-02 to 6-8-79) Generalmajor in Werhmacht Heer (World War II) President of the Federal Intelligence Bureau (1956-1968) and other 'accomplishments'