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Crossing Hitler : the man who put the Nazis on the witness stand / Benjamin Carter Hett.
Author
Hett, Benjamin Carter
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Description
x, 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
DD247.L58 H47 2008
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Subject(s)
Lawyers
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Germany
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Biography
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Anti-Nazi movement
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Biography
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Criminal justice, Administration of
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Germany
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History
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20th century
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Political participation
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Moral and ethical aspects
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Germany
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Litten, Hans 1903-1938
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Biographies
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Summary note
During a 1931 trial of four Nazi stormtroopers, known as the Eden Dance Palace trial, Hans Litten grilled Hitler in a brilliant and merciless three-hour cross-examination, forcing him into multiple contradictions and evasions and finally reducing him to helpless and humiliating rage (the transcription of Hitler's full testimony is included.) At the time, Hitler was still trying to prove his embrace of legal methods, and distancing himself from his stormtroopers. The courageous Litten revealed his true intentions, and in the process, posed a real threat to Nazi ambition. When the Nazis seized power two years after the trial, friends and family urged Litten to flee the country. This the first full-length biography of Litten, the book also explores the turbulent years of the Weimar Republic and the terror of Nazi rule in Germany after 1933. --Publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-339) and index.
Contents
Prologue: Summoning Hitler
The Litten Court
The black mob
The grizzly, the camel, and the seal-bear
You must change your life
Litten & Barbasch
May day
The witness
Political soldiers
The Eden Dance Palace
"Murder storm 33"
Roll commandos
The oath
A snag with Hitler
Verdicts
The double edge of the deed
Bülow Square
Richard Street
They know what they do
Underground influences
Felseneck
"A dangerous irritant in the administration of justice"
Expelled
Threats
The Reichstag burns
Sonnenburg
"Coordination"
Spandau
Diels's list
"I must burden you with my suicide"
Means of escape
Madonna in the Rose Bower
Long knives
The führer's clemency
Thoughts are free
The Jew block
Isolation
Passion
News
Epilogue: "Only where there are graves are there resurrections"
Appendix: Hans Litten's cross-examination of Adolf Hitler, May 8, 1931.
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ISBN
9780195369885 ((alk. paper))
0195369882 ((alk. paper))
LCCN
2008004964
OCLC
191865749
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