Crossing Hitler: The Man Who Put the Nazis on the Witness Stand (2008)

Winner of the 2007 Fraenkel Prize from the Wiener Library, London.

Trial lawyer Hans Litten was twenty-seven years old when he summoned Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler to a Berlin courtroom and subjected the Führer to a grueling three-hour cross-examination. Two years later Hitler became the leader of all of Germany and remembered the young lawyer who had almost destroyed his political career. This book tells the story of a brilliant and fearless man who risked everything to stop Hitler’s rise – and paid heavily for his courage.