Irmgard Litten, née Wust, (August 30, 1879 – June 30, 1953) was a German writer.

Career

Her husband was

Friedrich Litten Friedrich Julius Litten (22 February 1873 – February 1940) was a German jurist and a university college teacher. His father was Joseph Litten, the president of the Jewish community in Königsberg from 1899 to 1906. He married Irmgard Litten fro ...

, a German jurist. She was the mother of

Hans Litten Hans Achim Litten (19 June 1903 – 5 February 1938) was a German lawyer who represented opponents of the Nazis at important political trials between 1929 and 1932, defending the rights of workers during the Weimar Republic. During one trial i ...

. Her account of her son's persecution and torture under the

Nazi Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in ...

regime, and her efforts to support him, was published in

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under the title ''Die Hölle sieht dich an: Der Fall Litten''. An English translation, ''A Mother Fights Hitler'', was published the same year in

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. The American edition, titled ''Beyond Tears'', was published in September 1940, with an added introduction and epilogue urging America to confront the threat of Nazi Germany.

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"Bis zur letzten Schlacht"
''Freitag'' (June 27, 2003) 1879 births 1953 deaths 20th-century German writers 20th-century German women writers {{Germany-writer-stub