Hitler's Speech at the Munich Putsch Trial

Judge Onsorg disallowed further questioning. Litten was sent to a concentration camp where he spent more than five agonizing years before committing suicide in Dachau. The main way that the press defanged Hitler was by portraying him as something of a voluble insecurity, writes Peter Bergen. In late 1920s papers took to calling him the German Mussolini because they could gawk at his corpse and not be disgraced yet.