Would you have been one of them? : Every Man Dies Alone

"Every Man Dies Alone" continues to be a great read (nearly 100 pp in - it's a +500-page novel) - lots of action in the first few chapters, lots of tension, none of it gratuitous or improbable, feels like a very solid realistic novel of the mid-20th century best-seller variety, but rising above the genre because of its tragic and little-explored subject matter of German resistance to the Nazis. What's particularly compelling is that these are not heroic resisters in the schindler/spielberg/hollywood mold, but ordinary people, ordinary Germans, the ones much-maligned, justifiably, by history. There were millions who went along, silently acquiesced, but a few who didn't, and this book gives you a sense of who they were and forces you to think: would you have been one of them? We all like to think yes, of course - but it's so much easier to just quietly go along, join the party, sit in the back and don't speak out. Hans Fallada has a very spare, unadorned style - it doesn't feel like you're reading "literature," and this material would have been handled differently, maybe better, by any number of his contemporaries - but they didn't handle it and he did. It reminds me, just a little, of A Man Without Qualities (named chapters, omniscient and objective 3rd person, several different narrative strands within a small urban enclave that will inevitably intersect), but far more conventional in its tone and more sensational in its action: first few chapters center on the looting of the apartment of Jewish widow and how others in the building react to this incident. Would this book make a good movie or series?