Document. An essay entitled "The Bigger They Are. . ." ~ He feels that Hochhuth is saying something that we very much need to hear. The memories which haunt Dorland, the director of Hochhuth's play-within a-play, is a former RAF pilot who was brought down in one of the raids. He was confronted with the horrors he and his colleagues were committing. Now, he is engaged in a fruitless effort to dissuade his son from his commitment to the objectives of the NATO nuclear forces of which he is a part.