Subpoenaed Adolf Hitler to appear as a witness in a 1931 trial
Hans Achim Litten (19 June 1903 – 5 February 1938) was a German lawyer who represented opponents of the Nazis at important political trials between 1929 and 1932, defending the rights of workers during the Weimar Republic.
During one trial in 1931, Litten subpoenaed Adolf Hitler to appear as a witness, and cross-examined him for three hours. Hitler was so rattled by the experience that, years later, he would not allow Litten's name to be mentioned in his presence. In retaliation, Litten was arrested on the night of the Reichstag fire along with other progressive lawyers and leftists. Litten spent the rest of his life in one German concentration camp or another, enduring torture and many interrogations. After five years and a move to Dachau, where his treatment worsened and he was cut off from all outside communication, he committed suicide.
A number of memorials to him exist in Germany, but Litten was largely ignored for decades because his politics did not fit comfortably in either the west or the communist postwar propaganda. Not until 2011 was Litten finally portrayed in the mass media, when the BBC broadcast The Man Who Crossed Hitler, a television film set in Berlin in summer 1931.
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the Second Spanish Republic. May 8 – Prosecution of Adolf Hitler by HansLitten for complicity in manslaughter committed by members of the Sturmabteilung...
for Constitutional Rights and the NYC Jobs with Justice award. 2006, HansLitten Prize, named after a famous anti-fascist lawyer who was tortured to death...
2012) In the Weimar Republic of Germany, prosecution of Adolf Hitler by HansLitten for complicity in manslaughter committed by members of the Sturmabteilung...
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until he left for Festigal 2005. In 2015 he played the German lawyer, HansLitten in the Habima Theatre production of Taken at Midnight. Danker plays a...
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