The Trial of Adolf Hitler (1979) By Phillipe Van Rjindt
 
With the fiery collapse of Berlin only hours away, Adolf Hitler, alone in the Führerbunker, commits his final error of the war: his suicide attempt fails. Looking upon this as a divine sign that his struggle is not yet finished, a crippled, half-crazed Hitler flees the bunker to the Bavarian village of Emmaus. His true identity masked by scars and wounds, he is taken for just another refugee and slowly nursed back to health. For the next twenty-five years he is known as Werner Busse, a leading citizen. But as the years advance, Hitler realizes that he cannot cheat death twice. In a final challenge to civilization, he reveals his true identity to a West German prosecutor and demands to be tried. His position: how can the world continue to condemn him and the policies of his Reich after twenty-five years of ever-increasing bloodshed and horror? Were his acts, in fact, any worse than those of the world leaders who followed him?
 
That is the astonishing premise of this remarkable book, in which Philippe van Rjndt has assembled a powerful cast of characters caught in a tremendous conflict: Hans Kleemann, the prosecutor, committed to cleansing his country of every vestige of Nazism; Helmut Toller, the brilliant young attorney whom Hitler chooses to speak for him, unaware that for Toller the trial serves its own particular purpose; Lillian Grubber, Toller's foster-mother, horrified by and powerless against the evil that is infecting the man she regards as her son; the citizens of Emmaus, whose gratitude to the man they know as Werner Busse is boundless; the judges - from England, Russia, Israel, America and Germany - in whose hands the final decision lies. And finally, Adolf Hitler, who lives and breathes in these pages, as menacing a presence as he ever was in life.
 
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
334 pages
In Good Condition