It's remarked that he's also as skinny as a rail, despite his eating. Especially since they continually ignore the reports and experiences of people who have actually served on the front ("You soldiers know only about your own little sector, but you don't see the big picture"). Armchair Military: A lot of the people back home.Anyone Can Die: Almost every important character on the battlefront is killed off, or at least horribly maimed to the point that their injuries are traumatic to their surviving friends.Earlier, Franz Kemmerich, another classmate of Paul's has his leg amputated, but he doesn't survive. This makes him contemplate suicide, but he eventually accepts his fate. An Arm and a Leg: Paul's former classmate Albert Kropp has his leg amputated when they're wounded together.
note Apparently, the bill never even made it to him he didn't find out about his sister's fate until after World War II.Īll Quiet on the Western Front and its adaptations contain examples of: They sent the 500,000RM bill for her imprisonment and execution to him. In 1943, his sister was beheaded by the Nazis as a stand-in for him. Remarque fled to Switzerland and later to the United States. They also spread several falsehoods about Remarque through propaganda, namely that his "real" last name was Kramer ("Remark" spelled backwards) and that he was from a Jewish background (both these bits of misinformation even made it into a couple of later biographies on Remarque).
Nazis were less than pleased - believing the book would "soften" Germany, they added it to their list of proscribed books, and it was one of the first books to be burned publicly in 1933. Left-wing intellectuals, as well as many war veterans, on the other hand, praised the book highly, and its international reception was adoring, both for its excellent quality of writing and its stark look at the horrors of war. Initial German reaction was mixed, with reactionary Germans furious at this "disrespectful" "cowardly" and "treasonous" look at the German Army. However it would turn out to be a best-seller when it was first released. Remarque had actually written the book back in 1927, but it was first published two years later, due his difficulty in finding a publisher willing to publicize the book due to its controversial content. Further themes are comradeship and the soldiers' detachment from civilian life. The horrors of trench warfare are described in a brutally realistic fashion. Many of the elements of the narrative correspond to Remarque's own experiences, and the book has strong autobiographical undertones.Īll Quiet on the Western Front is narrated by a young soldier, former grammar school student Paul Bäumer. It's considered to be one of the greatest and most important works in the genre. All Quiet on the Western Front ( Im Westen Nichts Neues note Literally "Nothing New in the West") is a 1929 anti-war novel, set during World War I, by famous German author and war veteran Erich Maria Remarque.
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