The Portage to San Cristóbal of A. H.

About this book

*The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H.* is a 1981 literary and philosophical novella by George Steiner. The story is about Jewish Nazi hunters who find a fictional Adolf Hitler (A.H.) alive in the Amazon jungle thirty years after the end of World War II. The book was controversial, particularly among reviewers and Jewish scholars, because the author allows Hitler to defend himself when he is put on trial in the jungle by his captors. There Hitler maintains that Israel owes its existence to the Holocaust and that he is the "benefactor of the Jews". (Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Portage_to_San_Cristobal_of_A.H.))