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Judgement in Berlin

Herbert Jay Stern

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Description:It is January 1979 and headlines across Europe and America proclaim a startling event: Unprecedented American Court Convened in West Berlin to Try East German Fugitives.Four months earlier an East German, fleeing the Communist secret police, had diverted a Polish airliner from East Berlin to the American sector of West Berlin. As he and his woman companion disembarked, other passengers spontaneously defected to the West, and the two “hijackers” were welcomed as heroes by U.S. officials. But within hours the Communists reminded the Western powers of their anti-hijacking agreements — and the fugitives were arrested on orders of the U.S. State Department. Persuaded by West Germany, the State Department uses the continued occupied status of Berlin as a pretext to convene an occupation court in the middle of modern-day West Berlin. And so, thirty-four years after the end of World War II, the United States hurriedly builds a court for this case in the former capital of the Third Reich, houses it in what had been the home of the Luftwaffe, convenes it by right of conquest, and appoints a “United States Judge for Berlin.” As the trial progresses, both prosecution and defense employ strategies and maneuvers worthy of Perry Mason himself, Indeed, before the trial is over, the judge has had to forbid a brazen attempt by the U.S. prosecutor to apply Nazi law to defendants whose real crime, it seems, was to choose the wrong means of escaping oppression. With its vivid accounts of daring escapes, close calls, diplomatic intrigues, and dramatic courtroom confrontations, JUDGMENT IN BERLIN is unsurpassed as a true-life suspense story. Readers will eagerly await the surprise verdict as they ponder their own answer to the question: What may prisoners locked behind the Iron Curtain legally do to gain their freedom?We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Judgement in Berlin. To get started finding Judgement in Berlin, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: It is January 1979 and headlines across Europe and America proclaim a startling event: Unprecedented American Court Convened in West Berlin to Try East German Fugitives.Four months earlier an East German, fleeing the Communist secret police, had diverted a Polish airliner from East Berlin to the American sector of West Berlin. As he and his woman companion disembarked, other passengers spontaneously defected to the West, and the two “hijackers” were welcomed as heroes by U.S. officials. But within hours the Communists reminded the Western powers of their anti-hijacking agreements — and the fugitives were arrested on orders of the U.S. State Department. Persuaded by West Germany, the State Department uses the continued occupied status of Berlin as a pretext to convene an occupation court in the middle of modern-day West Berlin. And so, thirty-four years after the end of World War II, the United States hurriedly builds a court for this case in the former capital of the Third Reich, houses it in what had been the home of the Luftwaffe, convenes it by right of conquest, and appoints a “United States Judge for Berlin.” As the trial progresses, both prosecution and defense employ strategies and maneuvers worthy of Perry Mason himself, Indeed, before the trial is over, the judge has had to forbid a brazen attempt by the U.S. prosecutor to apply Nazi law to defendants whose real crime, it seems, was to choose the wrong means of escaping oppression. With its vivid accounts of daring escapes, close calls, diplomatic intrigues, and dramatic courtroom confrontations, JUDGMENT IN BERLIN is unsurpassed as a true-life suspense story. Readers will eagerly await the surprise verdict as they ponder their own answer to the question: What may prisoners locked behind the Iron Curtain legally do to gain their freedom?We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Judgement in Berlin. To get started finding Judgement in Berlin, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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