Good

Good is a story about a liberal-minded university professor who drifts well-meaning into a position in the upper reaches of the Nazi administration. John Halder, a professor of literature, seems to be a good man; he diligently visits his blind and senile mother and looks after his vacuous wife and three children. He is unremarkable other than an unusual nervous tic; the imaginary sound of band music plays in the background of his life, particularly at moments of high emotion.
But by writing a book the result of his own experience discussing euthanasia for senile elderly people and by lecturing on the delicacy of German literary culture, John has unintentionally made himself a very desirable acquisition for the Nazi party. A profound and alarming examination of passivity and the rationalisation of evil.