Notes on Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front"

Go behind the German front lines with a group of young soldiers in All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque.

Narrator Paul Baumer tells the story of several schoolmates whose youth is snatched away by the dehumanization of World War I's trench warfare.

Find out why the German government banned and often burned this novel, and explore the present day implications of Remarque's bitter novel.

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