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An old pair of knickers have been sold at auction for £2,900 (about $3,600.00 USD). The lilac panties belonged to Eva Braun, the mistress who married Adolf Hitler before she committed suicide by cyanide capsule as Nazi Germany faced collapse in April 1945. It is unlikely she was wearing them at the time. Originally expected to bring in £400, the silk knickers were sold for £2,900 when they went under the hammer at the Philip Serrell auction room in Malvern alongside some other personal items belonging to Eva Braun and monogrammed with her initials. The knickers were reportedly found by...

  Jail break-in to give lag knickers   Policed briefs ... Everthorpe jail   By JOHN KAY Published: Today     A JAIL was broken into to supply a transvestite lag with women’s clothes, it was revealed yesterday. Officers found knickers, ball gowns and denim skirts in a burglary convict’s cell, along with drugs and mobile phones. An accomplice on the outside used a ladder to scale the 20ft perimeter wall, making regular break-ins. The hauls were sold to fellow cons at £600 a time – but the contraband was found last Friday after officers were tipped off. A...

A cartel of lingerie thieves who stole £2.6 million worth of lacy bras and briefs - more than 100,000 items - in a four-year crime spree has been broken up by French police. Luxurious underwear destined for designers such as Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein ended up instead on the black market, courtesy of five separate criminal rings operating at the Lejaby company's factory near Lyons, in south-east France. Lejaby's celebrated Invisible range of knickers lived up to its name when a consignment of 13,000 items being transported by lorry from the factory simply vanished. One of the more sophisticated...