A restauranteur bought a villa that he knew was rich in history. What the chef didn't know was how history was about to invade his present.

Silvio Stelzer opened a restaurant in the villa of the Wasserschloss Moritzburg estate in Saxony, which was the old seat of the royal family. The estate gardens held a secret - a stash of champagne and cognac that belonged to Adolf Hitler - in an underground chamber, according to Bild. A ledger found in the house indicated that Hitler had a deal with the palace owner at the time, Prince Ernst Heinrich von Sachsen.

Hitler was a known obsessive: vegetarian, teetotal and non-smoker, so why did he need this underground drinkable wealth?

"At the end of 1944, Hitler had his wine cellar and delicatessens delivered into this underground labyrinth because the airstrikes had made Berlin unsafe," Stelzer told Bild, according to The Local. Hundreds of trucks delivered at night: salami, cheese, chocolate, cigarettes and other rare delicacies.

"The prince received a special package full of delicacies from the Führer in return," Stelzer said. "None of the food is left. After May 8th 1945, the Russian troops plundered everything."

What will the chef do with the 76-year-old booze? "What will become of them is unclear," Stelzer told Bild.

The pilfered bottles of alcohol are just one in a recent rash of Hitler-related artifacts that have been turning up, including bronze horses that once stood outside the Reich Chancellery and underwear that allegedly belonged to the dictator's mistress, Eva Braun.