Ethical grey zones: on coercion and complicity in the concentration camp and beyond

Primo Levi took on a taboo subject, overturning black and white notions of innocence and guilt in Auschwitz, in favour of a more nuanced approach of how coercion structured the camp and how it left survivors complicit and ashamed. His "grey zone" breaks down the victim/perpetrator binary and it frustrates our ability to judge the prisoners' behavior