A huge trove of Nazi relics collected by the late American doctor John K Lattimer brought in 1.1 million euros in a five-hour auction in Munich last weekend, smashing early estimates.
The controversial sale on June 17 was shrouded in secrecy, since it is illegal in Germany to glorify the Nazi era. But some details have emerged.
Among the items sold, mostly to one buyer, were Hitler's last Wehrmacht uniform (275,000 euros), Hermann Goering's silk nightshirt and extra-large underwear (3,000 euros), a pair of Hitler's socks, two dresses of Eva Braun, and even pieces of the rope used to hang condemned Nazi war criminal Julius Streicher at Nuremberg.
Early estimates had the items bringing in only 170,000. But interest - and competition - was obviously greater than expected.
