When Bäumer, the last surviving member of the group, is killed in October 1918 the High Command report only states: “All quiet on the western front”. Through the first-person narration by Paul Bäumer, World War I is depicted as an industrialized war replete with senseless fighting and killing the individual soldier is disillusioned and only interested in survival. The novel by Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970) describes the fate, experiences, and suffering of a group of young students who volunteered for the war it traces these soldiers’ experiences on the Western Front, in the hospital, and on the home front. The novel Im Westen nichts Neues ↑ Content ↑
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