
Judgment in Berlin
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In August 1978, the Iron Curtain still hung heavily across Europe. To escape from oppressive East Berlin, an East German couple, Hans Detlef Alexander Tiede and Ingrid Ruske, hijacked a Polish airliner and diverted it to the American sector of West Berlin. Along with the couple, several passengers spontaneously defected to the West, and were welcomed by US officials. But within hours, Communist officials reminded the West of the anti-hijacking agreements in the Warsaw Pact, and thus the fugitives were arrested by the US State Department.
Thirty-four years after World War II, the United States built a court in the middle of West Berlin, the former capital of the Third Reich, in the building that once housed the Luftwaffe, to try the hijacking couple. Former NJ district attorney, now a judge, Herbert J. Stern was appointed the "United States Judge for Berlin." What followed was a trial full of maneuvers and strategies that would put Perry Mason to shame, and answered the question: what is allowed to people seeking freedom?
Judgment in Berlin, also a major motion picture starring Martin Sheen and Sean Penn, is unsurpassed as a true-life suspense story, with its vivid accounts of daring escapes, close calls, diplomatic intrigue, and dramatic courtroom confrontations. The original edition won the Freedom Foundation Award, and this updated edition includes a new introduction from author and trial judge Herbert J. Stern.
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- Front Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction to the Skyhorse Edition
- Book I-Welcome to Free West Berlin
- August 30, 1978
- 1 The Round-Trip Ticket to Freedom
- 2 The Wall of Tears [August 13, 1961]
- 3 The Defendants [August 30-December 6, 1978]
- Book II-The Preliminaries
- 4 The Prosecutors and the Judges
- 5 The Preliminary Examination [January 12, 1979]
- 6 Probable Cause [January 13, 1979]
- Book III-By Right of Conquest
- 7 In the Name of Honor [March 11-12, 1979]
- 8 The Conquerors' Court [March 13, 1979]
- 9 The Constitutional Occupation [March 13-14, 1979]
- Book IV-Ingrid Ruske
- 10 Gesagt ist Gesagt [March 14-15, 1979]
- 11 Limbo [March 15-16, 1979]
- 12 The Minister and the Judge [March 16-17, 1979]
- 13 Goeller [March 17, 1979]
- Book V-Hans Detlef Alexander Tiede
- 14 In the National Interest [March 17-May 9, 1979]
- 15 Suppression [May 9, 1979]
- 16 A Fraud on the Court [May 10, 1979]
- 17 My Country Tis of Thee [May 10-13, 1979]
- Book VI-Trial
- 18 The Jury [May 14, 1979]
- 19 The Opening [May 15, 1979]
- 20 The Flight of LOT 165 [May 16, 1979]
- 21 A Tale of Two Pilots [May 16, 1979]
- 22 Judge or Jury [May 17, 1979]
- 23 The Defense-X, Y, Z [May 21, 1979]
- 24 A, B, C, and D [May 22, 1979]
- 25 Summation [May 23, 1979]
- 26 Land Where Our Fathers Died [May 24-25, 1979]
- 27 Verdict [May 26, 1979]
- 28 Sweet Land of Liberty [May 27, 1979]
- 29 Let Freedom Ring [May 28-29, 1979]
- Postscript
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
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