Enlightenment supposly direct the steps of civilization. In search of progress and prosperity. How useless must be everything that has been written Not only done or thought in the world. When such a thing is still possible! Of necessity, everything must be a lie and insignificance when the culture of thousands of years has not been able to prevent these torrents of blood from being sh or these prisons of pain and suffering from existing. (Remarque, 1978, p. 201). Publish in 1929, the story of a group of young Germans who, having barely finish school, enlist in the army to do their best in the defense of their homeland, left an everlasting mark on anti-war literature of all. the times.
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Years later, during the Nazi regime, All Quiet on the Front would be one of the many works thrown into the fireby the totalitarian and genocidal preaching that prepar the advent of another scenario of horror: the one that would unfold starting in 1939 and that. After six business lead years, would end with more than 50 million deaths – among these, 6 million Jews murder by left alone or exterminat in concentration camps – two Japanese cities almost completely devastat by the enormous power of atomic energy and the main metropolises of Europe literally in ruins. Paul Bäumer is the one who recounts the events that unfold with increasing horror.
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Between rifle fire, grenades and bombardments, the friends who came with him and those others he would meet at the front – Leer, Franz Kemmerich. Not only. Müller, Tjaden, Berger, Albert Kropp, Haie Westhus, Detering – kill and are kill, fighting for an ideology that they do not understand well, but that demands that they offer their lives on the altar of barbarism. The first of the group EG List of friends to fall down is Kemmerich. The image is tremendous: the young man, bridden in the field hospital where he is being treat, worri about his watch, which someone has stolen from him, does not suspect that his leg has been amputat.
