One Jewish Perspective: Speaking Metaphorically, "Losing a Lawsuit Can Have Its Long-Term Benefits."

The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H. is a 1981 literary novella written by George Steiner, in which Jewish Nazi hunters find Adolf Hitler (A.H.) alive in the Amazon jungle thirty years after the end of World War II. The book generated considerable controversy after its publication because in it, Steiner, who is Jewish, 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."

The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H. was a 1983 finalist in the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. It was adapted for the theatre by British playwright Christopher Hampton and was staged in London in April 1982 with Alec McCowen playing the part of Adolf Hitler. It was also staged in Hartford, Connecticut in the United States in 1983 and starred John Cullum as Hitler.

Regardless of the merits of George Steiner's book, I can say with absolute sincerity that the D.C. Courts have been my benefactor.  I now live in happy retirement on a generous government pension.