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Crossing Hitler : the man who put the Nazis on the witness stand /

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 transcripti...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hett, Benjamin Carter
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.