The underwear of Eva Braun, who married long-time lover Adolf Hitler as the Allies stormed Berlin, has allegedly found its way to a tiny town in the US.

The silk, high-waisted knickers monogramed ‘EB’ were discovered on sale in an antiques store in Elmore, Ohio by a journalist.

Marin Cogan posted a photo of the frilly lingerie online, which news website The Daily Beast then investigated.

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After killing herself in April 1945, Braun’s undies were taken from Hitler’s bunker by a US paratrooper, who sold them to Catholic archbishop-turned antiques dealer Ernie Scarango, who displays them to this day, or so the story goes.

“They’re first rate: the fabric, embroidery and monogramming, the sewing of the button,” Mr Scarango told The Daily Beast.

“I planned on opening the store and I thought it’d be a good conversation piece to have Eva Braun’s underwear and make the store a destination of sorts.”

The dealer did not claim that Braun herself made it to the US with the lingerie in her luggage and a very much alive Hitler on her arm, as some conspiracy theorists have suggested.

This has been a favourite theory of conspiracists — that the murderous dictator faked his and Braun’s deaths and fled to Mexico, Canada or somewhere in South America and occasionally visited or lived in the US in later years.

These rumours were investigated by the FBI, which then published a trove of documents on the matter here.

As for Braun’s undies, no one has bought them yet, either because no one believes the tall story, or because the asking price of $7,500 is too much for Nazi nightclothes.

Found in an antique store in Elmore, Ohio: Eva Braun’s underwear, apparently pic.twitter.com/XrOpIAX7rL

— Marin Cogan (@marincogan) May 24, 2015