Der Prozess des Hans Litten

About this Event

As a young lawyer, Hans Litten defended political opponents of the emerging National Socialism and even summoned Adolf Hitler as a witness in court in 1931. Hitler felt humiliated and, on the day he seized power, ordered Hans Litten to be arrested and tortured in various concentration camps until he died in Dachau in 1938. Litten was imprisoned in the same cell as Carl von Ossietzky and the Jewish Erich Mühsam, which is also an important part of the play.