Correspondence regarding the release of Hans Litten from the KZ Lichtenburg and later Dachau

The file contains a correspondence regarding the release of Hans Litten from the KZ Lichtenburg and later Dachau. His mother, Irmgard Litten, correspond with different organizations and people in charge to achieve the release of his son from the concentration camp. In this file carbon copies and handwritten letters are attached. Hans Litten got captured because in May 1931, he summoned Adolf Hitler to testify in the Tanzpalast Eden Trial, a court case involving two workers stabbed by four SA men. Hans Litten cross examined Hitler for three hours, finding many points of contradiction and proving that Hitler had exhorted the SA to embark on a systematic campaign of violence against the Nazis' enemies. Two years later Hitler's hatred for Hans Litten was not forgotten and on February 28, 1933, the night of the Reichstag fire, he was taken into protective custody. From that day on his mother tried everything to achieve his liberty. She also got eyewitness reports about the situation of his son. But unfortunately all her efforts did not help to release him. On February 5, 1938, after five years of interrogation and torture and a failed escape attempt, Hans Litten was found hanging in the lavatory, a suicide.