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TIL of Hans Litten, a lawyer who cross-examined Hitler in 1931 about a violent attack on political opponents, hoping to show Germans that Hitler wanted to violently overthrow democracy. Refusing to flee Germany after Hitler took power, he was imprisoned in concentration camps until dying in 1938.

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