Talk about Nazi booty! These panties were apparently liberated from the Fuehrer.
A pair of French silk underwear that once belonged to Adolf Hitler’s wife, Eva Braun, is on sale at an Ohio antiques shop.
The high-waisted unmentionables, monogrammed with the initials “EB,” are being sold at the Mantiques store in Elmore, near Toledo, The Daily Beast reported.
Store owner Ernie Scarango claims he bought the Nazi lingerie from retired U.S. Air Force Maj. Charles Snyder.
The 84-year-old, in turn, purchased $3 million worth of Nazi memorabilia from a man known only as 1st Lt. D.C. Watts – who claimed to have been present during the 1945 liberation of Berchtesgaden, Hitler’s Alps retreat.
Watts reportedly shipped the panties, alongside dozens of other items, back to the U.S. in 1945.
Braun was 33 when she committed suicide alongside Hitler in a Berlin bunker at the war’s end.
Her panties live on. The salmon-colored briefs can be had for $7,500.
Snyder, who runs a web store called “Snyder’s Treasures” that boasts some 800,000 items for sale, claims he bought the trunk full of items after visiting a North Carolina warehouse in the 1990s.
Some have speculated whether the panties once purportedly donned by Braun are in fact the real deal.
Scarango insisted they came with a certificate of authenticity, prepared by Snyder, who himself claims to be “an expert.”
“They’re first rate: the fabric, embroidery and monogramming, the sewing of the button,” he told The Daily Beast.
“Not everyone has Eva Braun’s underwear,” he said.
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