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WWI also known as the First World War.
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Paul Baumer and his friends, Kropp, Muller, Tjaden, Westhus and Katczinki, are already in the war and been in battle, pushed to enlist by their teacher Kantorek.
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Baumer and his friends are placed under the command of Corporal Himmelstoss.
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At the front lines Kat predicts a bombardment later and then they see one from a distance and then a few get close enough to hit them.
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Paul reminisces about life before the war and how beautiful and easier life was.
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Paul makes it back to the group but is injured along the way and learns that Kropp has been too.
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After spending months in recouperation the pair has to split up. Kropp will live but he has to go to a different hospital to get a prosthetic leg and Paul goes back to the war. Sadly, this is the last you hear of Kropp.
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Paul and the rest of unit 2 are all attending school together
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The Erik Maria Remarck novel,<Im Westen, Nichts Neues> in the original German, is set in World War 1, which began August 1914.
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"We trudge onward in single file through the trenches and shell-holes and come again to the zone of mist. Katczinsky is restive, that's a bad sign."
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It was fairly quiet on our sector, so the quartermaster who remained in the rear had requisitioned the usual quantity of rations and provided for the full company of one hundred and fifty men.
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Kemmerick had gotten injured, and had his foot amputated
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Paul gets to go home for 17 days
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Paul is hiding in a shell hole, and a French soldier jumps in too
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The man slowly dies and Paul doesn’t have the heart to stab him again to put him out of his misery.
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Paul's arm becomes broken by a piece of shrapnel
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Paul returns to the front at the beginning of the Summer of 1918 having recovered from his injuries.
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Kat is injured badly and Paul carries him piggyback to the nearest dressing station.
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aul is killed on a quiet day in October just before the end of the war.
