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pauel and his friends from shcool inlist the war."There were thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom were convinced that there was only one way of doing well, and that way theirs. And that is just why they let us down so badly."
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pauel is training to go to battle for the germans."We loved our country as much as they; we went courageously into every action; but also we distinguished the false from the true, we had suddenly learned to see. And we saw that there was nothing of their world left."
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Himmelstoss tells Tjaden to stand up and salute; Tjaden refuses t even after being threatened with a court-martial.
Haie looked round once again and said wrathfully, satisfied and rather mysteriously:
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pauel goes to war in the trenches for germany."Then what exactly is the war for?" asks Tjaden.
Kat shrugs his shoulders. "There must be some people to whom the war is useful."
"Well, I'm not one of them," grins Tjaden.
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pauel lies and wathces kahmric die."Hospital-orderlies go to and fro with bottles and pails. One of them comes up, casts a glance at Kemmerich and goes away again. You can see he is waiting, apparently he wants the bed".
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mullar get kemrichs old boots that he wanted."While they continued to write and talk, we saw the wounded dying. While they taught that duty to one's country is the greatest thing, we already knew that death-throes are stronger. "
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new recruits for the german army come in."Seen the infants?"
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a bombardmendt happens in the night and the new recruits are scared to death.But on the last day an astonishing number of English field guns opened up on us with high-explosive, drumming ceaselessly on our position, so that we suffered heavily and came back only eighty strong.
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the solders try to kill the rats in the tranches"The rats here are particularly repulsive, they are so fat--the kind we all call corpse-rats."
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jadenwant to torture himmaslastoss for all his doings and makes a plan."We had sworn for weeks past to do this. Kropp had even gone so far as to propose entering the postal service in peace-time in order to be Himmelstoss's superior when he became a postman again. He reveled in the thought of how he would grind him. It was this that made it impossible for him to crush us altogether – we always reckoned that later, at the end of the war, we would have our revenge on him. "
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jaden and comrads beat himmalstos up in the streat for what he done to them."He put himself in position with evident satisfaction, raised his arm like a signal-mast and his hand like a coal-shovel and fetched such a blow on the white sack as would have felled an ox. "
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the boys see a few french women whyle swiming on there break."I think of the picture of the girl on the poster and, for a moment, believe that my life depends on winning her. And if I press ever deeper into the arms that embrace me, perhaps a miracle may happen."
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pauel gets to go home for a break for 6 weeks."I breathe deeply and say over to myself: "You are at home; you are at home." But a sense of strangeness will not leave me, I can find nothing of myself in all these things. There is my mother, there is my sister, there is my case of butterflies, and there is the mahogany piano – but I am not myself there. There is a distance, a veil between us."
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when pauel goes home for break he does not feel at home because of what he has expereanted."I am very quiet. Let the months and years come, they can bring me nothing more. I am so alone, and so without hope that I can confront them without fear. The life that has born me through these years is still in my hands and eyes. Whether I have subdued it, I know not. But so long as it is there it will seek its own way out, heedless of the will that is within me."
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pauel goes back to the battle after his break
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pauel kills an attacker with his knife and then fills sorrory for him and talks to him untill he dies."If you jumped in here again, I would not do it,"
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beham was shot in the eye and they left him for dead but they started to hear him later on crawl aroun in no mans land and then he was shot and killed. "Strange to say, Behm was one of the first to fall."
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kat is bringing food to the others when he is shot in the foot and pauel carries him to safty but noone saw the spelnter in his head that had killed him. "Naturally it's worse here. Naturally. The best for our soldiers every time, that goes without saying."
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pauel and albert is injured in another battle and for the operation they need to put pauel tosleep but pauel says no."But the shelling is stronger than everything. It wipes out the sensibilities, I merely crawl still deeper in the coffin, it should protect me, and especially as Death himself lies in it too."
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paules swallows leathal gas and dies."I become faint, all at once I cannot do any more. I won't revile any more, it is senseless, I could drop down and never rise up again."
