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Russia’s Famous Globe LONDON, Dec. 6. The Gottorp Globe, a Russian national treasure, looted by the Nazis in 1942, and found in the British zone in Germany, is being returned to the Soviet. The globe, which was made early in the seventeenth century for the Duke of Holstein, is a sphere 12 feet in diameter, of cut rock crystal, ringed with brass. A map of the world is painted on the outside of the sphere, and people seated inside set golden stars moving overhead in simulation of the constellations. The globe was captured by the Danes in 1645, presented by the King of Denmark to Peter the Great in 1707, and looted by the Nazis near Leningrad in 1942.
By permission of the Soviet, the globe will be seen in Hamburg by British troops.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23387, 19 December 1945, Page 7
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136TREASURE REGAINED Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23387, 19 December 1945, Page 7
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