ABSTRACT
The complicity of both the industrial complex and the medical and university establishments enabled Adolf Hitler was a German politician his regime to set up a machine of alienation and annihilation based on an aberrant ideology of production. In his testimony as a survivor, Primo Levi as an Italian Jewish chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor. The author will limit himself here to a few observations, although set in a register radically different than that of political analysis and testimony. The analysis of the gray zone, the detailed study of its facets, is surely one of Levi's greatest psychological, political, and ethnological contributions. It is an essential tool for thinking about the consequences of the relationship between power and alienation in all its forms and in all kinds of regimes, totalitarian or not. However, it is Primo Levi himself who outlines the continuity between the logic of desubjectivization and the logic of alienation in contemporary society.
