Berlin without Jews : Every Man Dies Alone

The luck of the Quangels begins to run out as, after 2 years of surreptitiously distributing post cards attacking the Fuhrer, a spy finally spots them making a drop and a police officer brings them into the station for questioning - and then, they're saved by the complete incompetence of the Gestapo, as the new inspector on the case (Zott) lets them go because he's convinced that the Hobgoblin (the one dropping the cards) must be someone who lives alone and works for the transit system, not a married carpenter. The incompetence of the Gestapo just adds further to the sense that this is a society in turmoil - it's almost worse than a bloodlessly efficient secret police, because of its very arbitrariness. Still trying to figure out how to take and comprehens Fallada's vision of society in "Every Man Dies Alone" - it's definitely a grim portrait of wartime Berlin but in an odd way a bit of a defense of the German people - most are not as horrible as they've been depicted and imagined. Still, there's a whitewashing of the Jewish issue after part 1 of the novel - the Germans from time to time express a fear of being taken to one of the conentration camps, but they have almost nothing to say about Jews (though the first part of the book is about an attack on a Jewish widow) - is that part of the point? They are willfully blind to the plight of any but themselves? The Jews have been erased from the book, just as they are erased from Nazi Germany?