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 Nazi Party, Nazis at important political trials between 1929 and 1932, defending the rights of workers during the Weimar Republic.
During o ...
. Her account of her son's persecution and torture under the
Nazi
Nazism (), formally named National Socialism (NS; , ), is the far-right politics, far-right Totalitarianism, totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany. During H ...
regime, and her efforts to support him, was published in
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...
under the title ''Die Hölle sieht dich an: Der Fall Litten''. An English translation, ''A Mother Fights Hitler'', was published the same year in
London
London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Wester ...
. 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.
External links
*
"Bis zur letzten Schlacht"''Freitag'' (June 27, 2003)
1879 births
1953 deaths
20th-century German writers
20th-century German women writers
{{Germany-writer-stub