A pair of underpants that belonged to Eva Braun, the wife of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, has been sold by a British auction house for more than $4,600.
The BBC reported that an anonymous phone bidder purchased the pink silk underwear, which bears Braun's initials and was auctioned off by Humbert & Ellis Auctioneers in Towcester, England, for 3,700 pounds ($4,614).
Other items sold from what the auction house described as "significant private European WWII collection," included a gold bracelet bearing a swastika that was given to the wife of Luftwaffe commander Hermann Goering and Braun's stained nightgown. The BBC reported that the same bidder who bought Braun's underwear purchased the nightgown.
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