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Summary: Bluebeard's Castle revisited.
Review: In this novel, Adolf H. did not commit suicide at the end of World War II, but escaped to South-America. After he is captured, he can defend himself for his crimes. His defence contains the same items as these developed in another book of the author 'In Bluebeard's Castle'. Adolf H. took revenge by organizing the holocaust because mankind was blackmailed three times in an absolute manner: by one terrifying almighty God, by the limitless love of his son Christ and by Rabbi-Marx, who wanted to create heaven on earth.
I found the first part of the novel 'the chase of Adolf H.' rather average.
The second part 'The defence of Adolf H.' is a powerful text, but I prefer the treatment of the same themes in his book 'In Bluebeard's Castle': a bold and compelling conjecture about the subconscious motives of the holocaust.
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Summary: A Literary Masterpiece...
Review: The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H. is no oridinary book -- it's a literary masterpiece filled with a vexing critque of Judaism contra Fascism (Nazism in general), not to mention it is superbly written. ..., I most certainly enjoyed Steiner's open critique of Jewish hypocracy and cancerous meddling throughout the ages, and even if his remarks about the "Holocaust" may be far fetched, it is nonetheless an honest look (and almost appraisal) of Adolf Hitler ... and a great dive into Jewish religious (Talamudic) tradition and hatred for the Goy. Dr. Steiner is a great man of letters, and his Jewishness does not deter me ONE BIT when I claim that he is one of America's finest men of letters and classical literature in the last 100 years... To read The Portage...A.H. is truly first rate and highly recommend -- [for anyone]
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Summary: A Good Read -- But That's All
Review: This strange novella feels padded even though it's less than 200 pages long and can be read over a weekend. The story is simple: Israeli Nazi-hunters capture Adolf Hitler in the depths of the Amazon rain forest. Their radio broadcasts to Israel are intercepted and decoded by various governments, which deliberate about how to respond before the news leaks out. Meanwhile, the Nazi-hunters, weakened by their ordeal in the jungle, decide to put their captive on trial. Hitler defends himself in a longish speech that has given solace to anti-Semitic readers (such as one Amazon reviewer below). Then the book ends. That's it. Really. Some of the writing is powerful, such as the radio broadcast from Israel reminding the Nazi-hunters of the horrors of the Holocaust. Other parts of the book are at least entertainingly bizarre, such as Hitler's super-intellectual defense of his decision to destroy European Jewry (since the Jews invented monotheism and guilt, they had to be wiped out). But at other times, the book is painfully cliche'd, as in its endless descriptions of the muck and leeches of Amazonia, or its quotes from the diary of a French diplomat (he's wily! he has a mistress! he is acutely self-aware!), or its rendering of the ponderous metaphysical/historical musings of a legal advisor to the German foreign ministry. Most readers will close the book scratching their heads and wondering what it was all about -- but at least it's short and holds one's attention.
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