Crossing Hitler is a biography of the German trial lawyer Hans Litten (1903-1938), who dedicated his brief career to an uncompromising struggle against Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, and suffered accordingly in Hitler's concentration camps. Through the prism of this one remarkable advocate, the book explores the rise of the Nazis, the vibrant criminal courts of the Weimar Republic, and the terror of Nazi rule in Germany after 1933. During the trial of four Nazi paratroopers in 1931, Litten grilled Hitler in a merciless three-hour examination, forcing Hitler into multiple contradictions and evasions and finally reducing him to helpless and humiliating rage. Two years later Hitler was in power, and Litten was sent to the concentration camps of the Third Reich, where he worked on translations of medieval German poetry and operated as a one-man university. After five years of torture and hard labor, Litten gave up hope of survival, and took his own life 1938.

【作者简介】

本杰明•卡特•黑特（Benjamin Carter Hett），曾是一名律师，现为纽约市立大学亨特学院历史学教授，居住在纽约。

【译者简介】

何远，1979年生，浙江大学民商法硕士，现为执业律师。译有《最高法院的“隐士”——戴维•苏特大法官传》(中国法制出版社，2013），并曾在《新京报》《南都周刊》与《南风窗》等报刊发表评论文章若干。