Crossing Hitler : The man who put the Nazis on the witness stand (9780195369885)

Crossing Hitler is a biography of the German trial lawyer Hans Litten (1903-1938), who dedicated his brief career to an uncompromising struggle against Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, and suffered accordingly in Hitler's concentration camps. Through the prism of this one remarkable advocate, the book explores the rise of the Nazis, the vibrant criminal courts of the Weimar Republic, and the terror of Nazi rule in Germany after 1933. During the trial of four Nazi
paratroopers in 1931, Litten grilled Hitler in a merciless three-hour examination, forcing Hitler into multiple contradictions and evasions and finally reducing him to helpless and humiliating rage. Two years later Hitler was in power, and Litten was sent to the concentration camps of the Third Reich,
where he worked on translations of medieval German poetry and operated as a one-man university. After five years of torture and hard labor, Litten gave up hope of survival, and took his own life 1938.

Product details

• Format Hardback | 368 pages
• Dimensions 165 x 240 x 29mm | 733g
• Publication date 13 Oct 2008
• Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
• Publication City/Country New York, United States
• Language English
• Illustrations note w. 16 halftones.
• ISBN10 0195369882
• ISBN13 9780195369885
• Bestsellers rank 836,000

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