 The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H. is a 1981 literary and philosophical novella by George Steiner , in which Jewish Nazi hunters find a fictional 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. <a href='drop_aux' title='1'><mark>is</mark></a>a 1981 literary and philosophical novella by George Steiner , in which Jewish Nazi hunters find a fictional 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 , <a href='null_relcl' title='2'><mark>who</mark></a><a href='drop_aux' title='3'><mark>is</mark></a>Jewish , <a href='uninflect' title='4'><mark>allows</mark></a> Hitler to defend himself when he is put on trial in the jungle by his captors . There Hitler <a href='uninflect' title='5'><mark>maintains</mark></a> that Israel <a href='uninflect' title='6'><mark>owes</mark></a> its existence to the Holocaust and that he <a href='drop_aux' title='7'><mark>is</mark></a>the " benefactor of the Jews " . 
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