Well, in the spirit of Kafka, I hope that the papers are lost in some God awful bureaucratic mess in which they are forever lost. The judge turns out to be Max Brod who against his own wishes decides the papers are, and have always been, the property of the Israeli government and not the descendants of whoever he gave them too. As a result of Brod's judgement Kafka's own wishes that the papers be destroyed are now seen as treason and his body exhumed. Brod is simultaneously given a medal for returning the proper ownership of the documents to the government and for losing them, as the government is no longer sure it wants to be associated with the treasonous Kafka, and of course stripped of said medal for the same two reasons.