Ordinary lives in extraordinary times - a book too long ignored

"Every Man Dies Alone" continues (110+ pp) as a really excellent read, easy to follow, full of great scenes of tension and moral dilemma, a story about ordinary people with many flaws and foibles living in their various ways through extraordinary times, under the Nazi rulers and thugs. The central tenet is the confluence of bestial forces around the widow Rosenthal's apartment - a couple of drunks and ne're do wells break in and begin to pillage the place, they're not Nazis, they're not even political in the slightest way, but certainly willing to use the cloak of Nazi anti-Semitism to steal from the Jewish widow for their own gain - hapless monsters. But they're caught in the act by the Nazi family that lives downstairs and really want the apartment for themselves - they beat the crap out of these two guys and dump them on the street. Meanwhile, the widow takes refuge with a retired judge, who's willing to shelter her, at some risk to himself, but only under the tightest of restrictions - holding her a virtual prisoner. Does he have no feeling for her, no human feelings at all? The third strand of the story is the Quangel family, son just killed in the war, the father very cold to his wife and shows no sorrow about his son's death, but tells his son's fiance and she lets slip that she's in a "cell" of resistance - then worries and confesses to her cellmates, afraid Quangel will blab. There are spies everywhere, everybody walks in fear, and to resist is extremely dangerous, and brave. It's a book with all kinds of shadings of morality and no obvious heros, no obvious answers.