"In Primo Levi's essay entitled "The Gray Zone,"... He maintained that in spite of our natural desire for clear-cut distinctions, the history of the camps "could not be reduced to the two blocs of victims and persecutors."

He argued passionately, "It is naive, absurd, and historically false to believe that aninfernal system such as National Socialism sanctifies its victims; on the contrary, it degrades them, it makes them resemble itself."

The time had come to examine the inhabitants of the zone" between the simplified Manichean images of perpetrator and victim."

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