When Hitler had served in the war he had felted like it had, “provided a structured life, a sense of purpose, and close relationships that did not invade his privacy.” (Wall 16) Hitler’s idea of war was very much different that that of what Remarque wrote about. I would guess that Paul Baumer Remarque’s main character would agree that the war provided a structured life, a life were everything is structured around death, but there is no point in the novel that Paul has a sense of purpose if anything he has lost all sense of purpose. His life has become nothing more than tryi

Hitler and the Nazis banned and burned All Quiet on the Western Front and really it doesn’t really shock me that much. The beliefs the Nazis held about war didn’t go along with what Remarque wrote about, and since the Nazis were allowed to ban books it just makes sense (even though I don’t agree with it) to me that they would ban an anti-war book such as Remarque’s was. I think Remarque did a great job in illustrating the horrors that war makes humans go through. And it is no surprise that he waited until the Nazis were starting to gain some power before he felt the need to write the novel. I think it may have been foresight on Remarque’s part to see where the Hitler and the Nazis were leading Germany down the road to war all over again and didn’t want another generation to be lost to war.

ng to survive starvation, and shells with no purpose waiting for him after the war. Paul talks about how him and the others his age have been lost. “We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.” (Remarque 123) He is not talking about those who have died for they no longer worry about what the future holds for them, he is talking about people like him who are to young to have done anything before the war and the war is all they know. Hitler was like Paul but he had different beliefs about the war and its purpose. Hitler said, “I set out for the front in 1914 with feelings of pure ideali

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