Legal AH books ?

[Melvin Loh]

Does anybody know about any AH texts which consider WI scenarios involving significant legal issues, such as the war crimes trial of Hitler had he been captured ?

[Norman]

Does anybody know about any AH texts which consider WI scenarios involving significant legal issues, such as the war crimes trial of Hitler had he been captured ?

I love this idea, and I'm going back over my law books right now to see how they can be reworked.

But they are all so dry -"Alston on Crosstime Contracts" just doesn't get it, give me some time.

[Prunesquallor]

Among others, John Harris has a book on Lord Lucan bringing a law suit about the charge of the Light Brigade and there's a book (I can't be faced going through my shelves) about a surviving Custer on trial after Little Big Horn.

[Wombat]

There is a german film based on the trial of mengele (IIRC)

[Doctor What]

Turtledove did a book (well actually a bunch of novellas and stories combined into a book) called 'A Different Flesh'--the basic premise is that instead of the natives crossing the Bering Strait and populating north america, it was an offshoot of early hominids (homo erectus I believe). These 'sims' are just smart enough to be put to slave labour and used for experiments. One of the stories involves a black slave and a different version of the Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) case.

[Diamond]

Gray Victory - Robert Skimin

JEB Stuart on trial for blunders at Gettysburg in a CSA that 'won' the ACW after Lincoln's voted out of office. Fairly decent read.

[Othniel]

Intresting, how about one based on Plessey vs. Fergunson?

[Steffen]

There is a german film based on the trial of mengele (IIRC)
If we are talking about the same film, "Nichts als die Wahrheit" 1998 about a nearly 100 year old Mengele looking like the devil himself, bad acting, stupid dialogues and if they had a juristical counsel for the the film they should take his law degree back and chase him tarred and feathered around the university.

The film is just bad.

[Major Major]

I've tried twice to quote Prunesquallor, without success.

The book about Custer is, not surprisingly, titled The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer and it is by Douglas C. Jones. The issues discussed in the hearing are not so much legal as they are military and political.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0061010308/102-9094718-8633726?v=glance

[Major Major]

As for the war crimes trial of Hitler, which started this thread, Amazon lists three books:

The Trial of Adolf Hitler by Philippe van Rijndt, which was the one I read. Hitler survives his suicide attempts, gets smuggled out of Berlin and lives in West Germany for some twenty-five years until uncovered. He is tried in New York by a special court, which for some reason decides to make it a brief trial, only calling a few witnesses. The Secret Nazi Party in Germany (wouldn't be a thriller without a Secret Nazi Party) has decided they need a Martyr.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671400282/qid=1122996896/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/102-9094718-8633726?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

Operation Lucifer: The Chase, Capture, and Trial of Adolf Hitler by David B. Charnay

The reviewers who didn't like it seemed to be mostly neo-Nazi types, except for the one who pointed out the anachronism of having a microwave oven in 1953. This seems to be a door-stopper of a book (953 pages).

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0967513502/qid=1122997394/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl14/102-9094718-8633726?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

The Trial of Adolf Hitler by Michael Dunlop Young
This is a wartime book (1944) so it may be a history of the Beer Hall Putsch trial or a propaganda piece; the description is rather lacking. I am citing it for competion's sake.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0007DU3CK/qid=1122997252/sr=8-5/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i5_xgl14/102-9094718-8633726?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

[Bulldawg85]

Turtledove did a book (well actually a bunch of novellas and stories combined into a book) called 'A Different Flesh'--the basic premise is that instead of the natives crossing the Bering Strait and populating north america, it was an offshoot of early hominids (homo erectus I believe). These 'sims' are just smart enough to be put to slave labour and used for experiments.

I also seem to remember one short story in that collection being about the implications of AIDS and having such a close cousin of ours to experiment with.