Theory of Moral Relativity is Alive and Well in Auschwitz
Throughout Chapter 8 This Side of Good and Evil of Primo Levis Survival in Auschwitz, Levi illustrates multiple situations of activity within the concentration camp to show how bizarrely altered the concept of "good and evil" has become for the prisoners. The concept has also become twisted for the Germans, but Levi is only able to surmise what the SS and other military personnels reactions to the shifting moral ground are like. ... " (85) Thus a complex problem arises: if the prisoners must steal to survive, if the SS soldiers steal from the living and the dead prisoners, if even the civilians are profiting from this atrocious situation, then no one is innocent by the outside worlds standards, but then perhaps the outside worlds morality is relative to the situation and these moral rules cannot apply.