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Crossing Hitler: The Man Who Put the Nazis on the Witness Stand
Crossing Hitler The Man Who Put the Nazis on the Witness Stand Author:Benjamin Carter Hett Crossing Hitler is the first full-length biography of the Jewish-German trial lawyer Hans Litten. It was awarded the 2007 Fraenkel Prize for an outstanding work of contemporary history. During a trial in 1931 of four Nazi stormtroopers, Hans Litten grilled Adolf Hitler in a merciless three-hour cross-examination, forcing him into multiple contra... more »dictions and reducing him to a humiliating rage. When the Nazis seized power two years later, Litten was sent to the concentration camps where he kept Dachau prisoners sane by reciting great works from memory amid unspeakable horror.« less