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Published October 28,

EPPC Online

By James Bowman

Tim Blake Nelson’s The Grey Zone announces its seriousness of purpose by being set in the midst of the Holocaust.

Said to be loosely based on actual events, it tells the story of a rebellion among the Sonderkomando at Auschwitz-Birkenau — Hungarian Jews who agreed to help with the mechanical tasks of industrial slaughter in return for better food, more privileges and a few months’ more life.

Somehow they have acquired and concealed weapons and manufactured some primitive bombs with which they mean to blow up the crematoria and so delay the work of death.

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The bombs are made with gunpowder smuggled out of the women’s section, which has been put to work manufacturing munitions.

When the Nazis discover some of the smuggled gunpowder they interrogate the women as to its destination with — are you surprised?

— unexampled brutality. Then, in the course of their work, shoving bodies into the ovens to be burnt, the plot