【作者簡介】

本傑明•卡特•黑特（Benjamin Carter Hett），曾是一名律師，現為紐約市立大學亨特學院曆史學教授，居住在紐約。

【譯者簡介】

何遠，1979年生，浙江大學民商法碩士，現為執業律師。譯有《最高法院的“隱士”——戴維•蘇特大法官傳》(中國法製齣版社，2013），並曾在《新京報》《南都周刊》與《南風窗》等報刊發錶評論文章若乾。

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.