The Man who Crossed Hitler [BBC - UK]

Richard Dower

Anyone watch this?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b013y3t0

In November 1930 brown-shirted storm troopers of Hitler’s SA break into the Communist Eden Palace club,killing several members. Jewish lawyer Hans Litten prosecutes them and,at the suggestion of his boss Rudolf Olden,agrees to sub-poena Hitler,who had supposedly renounced violence yet who clearly supported the SA, to discredit him as a popular figure. Against the advice of his assistant Margot Furst Hans prepares his case,even involving Stennes, a rival Nazi to Hitler. At the trial Hans,the practised lawyer,runs rings round Hitler,who is frequently unable to answer his questions. The Brown Shirts are convicted but it is a Pyrrhic victory for two years later Hitler will become chancellor,Hans will be arrested and he will die in Dachau concentration camp.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7M1Zw_mJuA

FloatingVoter

Yes. It was excellent but no need to give away the plot and the ending

ejmaztec

FloatingVoter wrote: »

Yes. It was excellent but no need to give away the plot and the ending

I recorded it when it was first on, but never got round to watching it, and now I don't think I'll bother.:(

coylemj

Get real, you knew the ending the second you saw the title of the program.

ejmaztec

coylemj wrote: »

Get real, you knew the ending the second you saw the title of the program.

I didn't know that the man who did the crossing died in Dachau until Dicky Dower decided to tell us about it. As far as I knew he could have done a Sound of Music and fecked off to the US with the family choir or summink:(

Technocentral

Wow, must be the first new programme about Hitler or WW2 on British TV in about 30 years, they never go near the subject.