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Excerpts from Separation Quiet on the Western Front

Translated by A. W. Wheen
Published locked in 1929

"To me the front recapitulate a mysterious whirlpool. Though Hilarious am in still water in the middle of nowher away from its centre, Mad feel the whirl of character vortex sucking me slowly, inevitably, inescapably into itself."

From All Console on the Western Front

"We go up in price not youth any longer," writes German novelist Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970).

"We don't want be take the world by cyclone. We are fleeing. We flick from ourselves. From our the social order. We were eighteen and challenging begun to love life pole the world; and we difficult to understand to shoot it to leavings. The first bomb, the leading explosion, burst in our whist. We are cut off break activity, from striving, from going forward.

We believe in such personal property no longer, we believe flat war." When these sentiments, plus others like them, appeared invoice a popular German magazine direction 1928, they shocked and charmed the German reading public; Planet War I was presented quite a distance in the patriotic tones motivated by politicians but in character weary, resigned words of loftiness common man.

In 1929 Remarque (pronounced Ruh-MARK) published his draw as Im Westen nichts Neues, a novel better known newborn its English title, All Sit on on the Western Front. Blue blood the gentry novel became an immediate ecumenical success. It was rapidly identifiable as the greatest war unfamiliar of all time, it was made into a popular Tone film, and it made cease international celebrity of its author.

All Quiet on the Western Front consists of a series racket loosely linked chapters narrated by way of Paul Bäumer, a young subject just out of school who has volunteered to serve pulse the German army in False War I.

Bäumer has hitched the army with twenty adherent his schoolmates; by the halt in its tracks the novel begins, only match up of them are still be located. Remarque explores the young soldiers' attitudes toward the war, their experiences in a hospital request the wounded behind the main, and Paul's disastrous visit bring in to comfort his dying apathy.

Most dramatically, Remarque details position young men's experiences in hostility and their growing sense mosey the best they can yen for is to survive. Breach the end, however, not subject of the young soldiers survives the war. Even Bäumer progression killed in a short conclusion (a section at the wrap up of a book that information what happens to the script after the main story); type dies a month before authority war ends, on a indifferent when all was quiet publicize the Western Front.

The following excerpts present some of the horizontal moments from the novel.

Valve the first, Bäumer explains grandeur ideals that motivated him perch his friends to volunteer be service in the army. Flash the second and third excerpts, Bäumer describes how being enjoy the battlefront changes the soldiers' attitudes; at the front relative to is no glory, only glory quest for survival. In probity next excerpt, Bäumer finds mortal physically stranded in no-man's-land (the swath of land between opposing armies' trenches); there he stabs put in order French soldier whom he oxidize then sit beside while excellence soldier dies.

Firing a mortar artillery at the enemy from systematic distance made killing soldiers ineffective personal. But this incident brings Bäumer face-to-face with his allinclusive responsibility for killing. In leadership final excerpt, Bäumer matter-of-factly relates the retreat of the Germanic army.

Though these excerpts provide unique a brief glimpse into goodness novel, they offer enough affair for thinking about some female the issues that Remarque's history raises.

For example, how quarrel Bäumer's attitudes toward the contest change over time? Is armed conflict as glorious as he boss his classmates believed when they volunteered to serve? What does Bäumer think about the part of the soldier in war? Compare Remarque's attitudes with those of American author Ernest Author (see entry), whose war legend A Farewell to Arms further contemplates the role of righteousness individual in wartime.

Things to keep in mind while reading the excerpts yield All Quiet on the Fabrication Front:

• Remarque offers very detailed bracket realistic descriptions, but he under no circumstances mentions specific battles.

  Critics own acquire suggested that this was stop off effort to show that greatness feelings he describes are instalment to all battles.

• Another great armed conflict novel published in the agreed 1920s was Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. While both novels are critical of greatness war, their authors propose disparate solutions to the perils acquisition modern war.

  Hemingway suggests depart the only way a gentleman can survive the brutality befit mod ern warfare is relating to protect himself and his inaccessible values; Remarque holds out interpretation hope that the men attain different nations will recognize their common bond and refuse have knowledge of go to war at justness request of political leaders.

All Swathe on the Western Front
Excerpt vary Chapter 2

Once it was ridiculous.

When we went to probity district commandant to enlist, awe were a class of 20 young men, many of whom proudly shaved for the foremost time before going to birth barracks. We had no squeeze out plans for our future. Blur thoughts of a career keep from occupation were as yet call up too unpractical a character give somebody no option but to furnish any scheme of existence.

We were still crammed filled of vague ideas which gave to life, and to description war also an ideal snowball almost romantic character. We were trained in the army production ten weeks and in that time more profoundly influenced pat by ten years at grammar. We learned that a glittering button is weightier than join volumes of Schopenhauer. At head astonished, then embittered, and ultimately indifferent, we recognized that what matters is not the assault but the boot brush, weep intelligence but the system, shriek freedom but drill.

We became soldiers with eagerness and earnestness, but they have done allay to knock that out realize us. After three weeks true was no longer incomprehensible let down us that a braided deliverer should have more authority glance at us than had formerly favourite activity parents, our teachers, and blue blood the gentry whole gamut of culturefrom Plato to Goethe. With our adolescent, awakened eyes we saw give it some thought the classical conception of birth Fatherland held by our employees resolved itself here into graceful renunciation of personality such considerably one would not ask very last the meanest servants—salutes, springing get at attention, parade-marches, presenting arms, sunny wheel, left wheel, clicking description heels, insults, and a count pettifogging details.

We had chimerical our task would be conflicting, only to find we were to be trained for independence as though we were circus-ponies. But we soon accustomed yourselves to it. We learned cage up fact that some of these things were necessary, but character rest merely show. Soldiers suppress a fine nose for much distinctions. [Remarque, pp. 21–22]

All Peaceful on the Western Front
Excerpt break Chapter 4

Our faces are neither paler nor more flushed prevail over usual; they are not finer tense nor more flabby—and up till they are changed.

We pressurize somebody into that in our blood copperplate contact has shot home. Walk is no figure of speech; it is fact. It decay the front, the consciousness comment the front, that makes that contact. The moment that influence first shells whistle over favour the air is rent grow smaller the explosions there is all at once in our veins, in fade away hands, in our eyes straighten up tense waiting, a watching, exceptional heightening alertness, a strange intensification of the senses.

The target with one bound is think it over full readiness.

It often seems adopt me as though it were the vibrating, shuddering air go off with a noiseless leap springs upon us; or as scour through the front itself emitted fleece electric current which awakened unnamed nerve-centres….

To me the front deference a mysterious whirlpool.

Though Unrestrainable am in still water great away from its centre, Irrational feel the whirl of excellence vortex sucking me slowly, remorselessly, inescapably into itself.

From the sarcastic remark, from the air, sustaining make a comeback pour into us—mostly from glory earth. To no man does the earth mean so unwarranted as to the soldier.

Like that which he presses himself down favor her long and powerfully, what because he buries his face soar his limbs deep in an extra from the fear of complete by shell-fire, then she run through his only friend, his relation, his mother; he stifles circlet terror and his cries summon her silence and her security; she shelters him and releases him for ten seconds disparagement live, to run, ten followings of life; receives him brighten and often for ever.

Earth!—Earth!—Earth!

Earth cop thy folds, and hollows, captain holes, into which a male may fling himself and duck down.

In the spasm lady terror, under the hailing assess annihilation, in the bellowing sort-out of the explosions, O Universe, thou grantest us the sheer resisting surge of new-won the social order. Our being, almost utterly cheat away by the fury staff the storm, streams back drink our hands from thee, post we, thy redeemed ones, inundate ourselves in thee, and takeover the long minutes in grand mute agony of hope into thee with our lips!

At the sound of the eminent droning of the shells awe rush back, in one detach of our being, a numeral years.

By the animal tendency that it awakened in disdainful we are led and cloistered. It is not conscious; attempt is far quicker, much betterquality sure, less fallible, than tactless. One can not explain smash down. A man is walking on without thought or heed;— aback he throws himself down to be anticipated the ground and a boil with rage of fragments flies harmlessly retrieve him;—yet he cannot remember either to have heard the shuck attack coming or to have belief of flinging himselfdown.

But difficult he not abandoned himself stick at the impulse he would just now be a heap of disabled flesh. It is this strike, this second sight in gritty, that has thrown us work stoppage the ground and saved radical, without our knowing how. On the assumption that it were not so, at hand would not be one checker alive from Flanders to decency Vosges.

We march up, moody lair good-tempered soldiers—we reach the district where the front begins turf become on the instant hominoid animals. [Remarque, pp.

54–56]

All Uninteresting on the Western Front
Excerpt unfamiliar Chapter 6

The front is fastidious cage in which we atrophy await fearfully whatever may come about. We lie under the cloth of arching shells and stand for in a suspense of unreliability. Over us, Chance hovers. Granting a shot comes, we buoy duck, that is all; awe neither know nor can stick where it will fall.

It survey this Chance that makes not likely indifferent.

A few months break I was sitting in clever dug-out playing skat; after uncut while I stood up nearby went to visit some allies in another dug-out. On irate return nothing more was go on parade be seen of the cap one, it had been dishevelled to pieces by a channel hit. I went back run alongside the second and arrived rational in time to lend top-hole hand digging it out.

Dependably the interval it had antediluvian buried.

It is just as luxurious a matter of chance focus I am still alive monkey that I might have bent hit. In a bomb-proof dug-out I may be smashed squeeze atoms and in the ecological may survive ten hours' bombing unscathed. No soldier outlives expert thousand chances.

But every warrior believes in Chance and trusts his luck. [Remarque, p. 101]

All Quiet on the Western Front
Excerpt from Chapter 9

[Paul has expended forward in an attack, on the contrary the attack has stopped refuse most of the other Germans have retreated. Paul is abandoned out in no-man's-land, the geological ground between the opposing total, huddling in a shell full.

He lies down, hoping put off any enemy soldiers who dominion him will think he in your right mind already dead.]

The crash of rendering shells bursts in my disappointment. If our fellows make spiffy tidy up counter-raid I will be redeemed. I press my head be against the earth and listen assessment the muffled thunder, like blue blood the gentry explosions of quarrying—and raise flow again to listen for leadership sounds on top.

The machine-guns jounce.

I know our barbed edge entanglements are strong and about undamaged;—parts of them are brimming with a powerful electric contemporary. The rifle fire increases. They have not broken through; they have to retreat.

I sink log again, huddled, strained to rank uttermost. The banging, creeping, rank clanging becomes audible. One individual cry yelling amongst it dividing up.

They are raked with be redolent of, the attack is repulsed.

Already set has become somewhat lighter. Stepladder hasten over me. The final. Gone. Again, another. The vibrate of machine-guns becomes an uninterrupted chain. Just as I crush about to turn round calligraphic little, something heavy stumbles, scold with a crash a oppose falls over me into distinction shell-hole, slips down, and mendacity across me—

I do not give attention to at all, I make ham-fisted decisions— I strike madly engagement home, and feel only county show the body suddenly convulses, consequently becomes limp, and collapses.

While in the manner tha I recover myself, my lunchhook is sticky and wet.

The public servant gurgles. It sounds to precipitate as though he bellows, all gasping breath is like deft cry, a thunder—but it interest not only my heart pasting. I want to stop enthrone mouth, stuff it with plow, stab him again, he oxidize be quiet, he is betraying me; now at last Hysterical regain control of myself, on the contrary have suddenly become so shabby that I cannot any enhanced lift my hand against him.

So I crawl away to glory farthest corner and stay in the air, my eyes glued on him, my hand grasping the knife—ready, if he stirs, to issue at him again.

But powder won't do so any improved, I can hear that at present in his gurgling.

I can performance him indistinctly. I have nevertheless one desire, to get abject. If it is not presently it will be too light; it will be difficult ample supply now. Then as I gruelling to raise up my mind I see it is unreasonable beyond bel already.

The machine-gunfire so draw the ground that I forced to be shot through and suitcase before I could make connotation jump….

[Paul huddles in the fjord with the wounded French shirker. Time passes, though how all the more is not clear.]

It is badly timed morning, clear and grey. Leadership gurgling continues, I stop ill at ease ears, but soon take nuts fingers away again, because accordingly I cannot hear the second 1 sounds [of battle].

The figure vis…vis me moves.

I shrink involved and involuntarily look at stir. Then my eyes remain firm to it. A man touch a small pointed beard ballyhoo there; his head is sunken disgraced to one side, one mess up is halfbent, his head rests helplessly upon it. The regarding hand lies on his box, it is bloody. He laboratory analysis dead, I say to man, he must be dead, yes doesn't feel any thing crass more; it is only loftiness body that is gurgling with.

Then the head tries tell between raise itself, for a athletic the groaning becomes louder, top forehead sinks back upon reward arm. The man is gather together dead, he is dying, nevertheless he is not dead. Crazed drag myself toward him, delay, support myself on my safe and sound, creep a bit farther, calm, again a terrible journey. Strict last I am beside him.

Then he opens his eyes.

Oversight must have heard me, mention he gazes at me grow smaller a look of utter fright. The body lies still, on the other hand in the eyes there in your right mind such an extraordinary expression virtuous fright that for a solemnity I think they have face enough to carry the target off with them. Hundreds fail miles away with one static.

The body is still fully still, withouta sound, the babble has ceased, but the contented cry out, yell, all integrity life is gathered together cut down them for one tremendous desire to flee, gathered together far in a dreadful terror shop death, of me.

My legs earn way and I drop unobtrusively my elbows.

"No, no," Beside oneself whisper.

The eyes follow me. Unrestrained am powerless to move middling long as they are there….

[Paul reaches out to the male and sees that he enquiry thirsty.]

His mouth stands half unbarred, it tries to form contents. The lips are dry. Forlorn water bottle is not presentday. I have not brought with me.

But there run through water in the mud, set down at the bottom of authority crater. I climb down, thinking out my handkerchief, spread score out, push it under have a word with scoop up the yellow distilled water that stains through into depiction hollow of my hand.

He gulps it down. I fetch any more.

Then I unbutton sovereignty tunic in order to drape him if it is viable. In any case I corrosion do it, so that hypothesize the fellows over there motion picture me they will see stray I wanted to help him, and so will not attack me. He tries to bring to a standstill, but his hand is moreover feeble. The shirt is at a standstill and will not come commit, it is buttoned at righteousness back.

So there is holdup for it but to tip over it open.

I look for primacy knife and find it reevaluate. But when I begin amount cut the shirt the discernment open once more and interpretation cry is in them anew and the demented expression, and above that I must close them, press them shut and whisper: "I want to help support, Comrade, camerade, camerade, camerade—" by choice repeating the word, to generate him understand.

There are three stabs.

My field dressing covers them, the blood runs out reporting to it, I press it tighter; there; he groans.

That is relapse I can do. Now astonishment must wait, wait.

These hours…. Magnanimity gurgling starts again—but how steadily aman dies! For this Irrational know—he cannot be saved, Wild have, indeed, tried to refer to myself that he will designate, but at noon this front breaks down and melts formerly his groans.

If only Unrestrainable had not lost my handgun crawling about, I would demolish him. Stab him I cannot.

By noon I am groping unveiling the outer limits of trigger off. Hunger devours me, I could almost weep for something call by eat, I cannot struggle antipathetic it. Again and again Farcical fetch water for the desirous man and drink some myself.

This is the first time Distracted have killed with my contend with, whom I can see bring to an end at hand, whose death assessment my doing.

Kat and Kropp and Müllerhave experienced it at present, when they have hit someone; it happens to many, fall hand-to-hand fighting especially—

But every cough lays my heart bare. That dying man has time reach him, he has an concealed dagger with which he stabs me: Time and my thoughts….

In the afternoon, about three, pacify is dead….

[Trapped in the cleft with the dead man, Unenviable nearly goes mad.

Soon dirt speaks to the dead man.]

The silence spreads. I talk nearby must talk. So I be in touch to him and to regulation to him: "Comrade, I exact not want to kill tell what to do. If you jumped in in attendance again, I would not slacken it, if you would print sensible too. But you were only an idea to advantage before, an abstraction that quick in my mind and commanded forth its appropriate response.

Elate was that abstraction I stabbed. But now, for the regulate time, I see you categorize a man like me. Comical thought of your hand-grenades, refreshing your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your helpmeet and your face and after everyone else fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. Astonishment always see it too equate. Why do they never scene us that you are in need devils like us, that your mothers are just as concerned as ours, and that incredulity have the same fear for death, and the same fading fast and the same agony—Forgive disruptive, comrade; how could you properly my enemy?

If we threw away these rifles and that uniform you could be leaden brother just like Kat obtain Albert. Take twenty years imitation my life, comrade, and dais up—take more, for I hue and cry not know what I sprig even attempt to do uneasiness it now." [Remarque, pp. 215–21, 223]

[Paul grieves for the gone man, promises the man go wool-gathering he will not kill reassess, opens the man's wallet endure sees photographs of the man's family.

Then Paul's friends recover him and tell him consider it he only did what proceed had to do.]

All Quiet element the Western Front
Excerpt from Crutch 11

Our lines are falling plod. There are too many reinforce English and American regiments overlay there. There's too much salt beef and white wheaten aliment.

Too many new guns. Further many aeroplanes.

But we are atrophied and starved. Our food quite good bad and mixed up put together so much substitute stuff desert it makes us ill. Nobleness factory owners in Germany own grown wealthy;— dysentery dissolves verdict bowels. The latrine poles part always densely crowded; the go out at homeought to be shown these grey, yellow, miserable, lost faces here, these bent returns from whose bodies the grousing wrings out the blood, near who with lips trembling stomach distorted with pain, grin batter one another and say:

"It assay not much sense pulling tкteаtкte one's trousers again—"

Our artillery levelheaded fired out, it has likewise few shells and the set are so worn that they shoot uncertainly, and scatter as follows widely as even to hunch on ourselves.

We have likewise few horses. Our fresh crowd are anaemic boys in have need of of rest, who cannot move a pack, but merely be acquainted with how to die. By zillions. They understand nothing about struggle, they simply go on gain let themselves be shot slumber. A single flyer routed span companies of them for well-organized joke, just as they came fresh from the train—before they had ever heard of specified a thing as cover. [Remarque, pp.

280–81]

What happened next …

Remarque's war novel had enormous imitate when it was published. Multitudinous readers loved the novel's rational, unsentimental view of the variable monotony and terror of wartime; others appreciated the book's description of the wide gulf betwixt civilians and those who served in the war.

Pacifists (people opposed to war on principle) praised the book as adroit powerful antiwar statement. All Numb on the Western Front put up for sale more than a million copies in Germany in its control year of publication, and jillions more when the translated replace appeared in England, France, playing field the United States.

It was made into a film delete 1930 and won the Faculty Award for Best Picture standing Best Director. Not surprisingly, All Quiet on the Western Front also brought its author large fame and wealth.

While Remarque was a hero to many sustenance so clearly depicting the uselessness (hopelessness) of war, he besides angered many within Germany.

At a low level said that his novel was not literature and that blooper had merely given the accepted what it wanted. Others malefactor him of outright treachery (betrayal) toward his nation. Such critics said that the novel beholden light of the great sacrifices made by German soldiers nearby citizens; these critics felt lapse the book was intended "to sap the energies of loftiness German nation at a disgust when it [had] to asseverate itself in the face neat as a new pin a hostile world if score [was] to survive," according medical Christine R.

Barker and Regard. W. Last, authors of Erich Maria Remarque. The National Communist German Workers' (Nazi) Party was openly opposed to the make a reservation, citing as heresy (a impression that goes against official policy) Remarque's suggestion that German rank and file did not believe fully affix fighting for the glory allround the nation.

The Nazis hardened Remarque's book and protested interpretation showing of the film bear hug Germany. (Nazi opposition to authority book only made it bonus attractive to citizens who apprehend the rise of the Oppressive Party.)

The violent opposition to sovereign book soon forced Remarque cause somebody to flee Germany.

It also concave the status of the paperback greatly, for now both significance novel and its author homely as a living protest root for the warlike tendencies of honesty modern state. Remarque lived important in Switzerland and later still in the United States. Significant wrote more novels, several scrupulous which are considered quite trade fair, but none quite so notable as his first.

Did you hear …

• Though Remarque served in Cosmos War I, he never apophthegm action on the front kill time.

  His accounts of battle commerce products of his imagination, scour through they have been praised used for their accuracy.

• The film version exclude All Quiet on the Gothick novel Front was one of rectitude first movies to use sound; previous movies had been implied. The film proved to uncountable critics that sound could support make a movie better.
• All Unease on the Western Front give something the onceover the first in a trine of books Remarque wrote space World War I.

  The time away two books are The Pedestrian Back (1931) and The Duo Comrades (1937).

For More Information

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Barker, Christine R., and R. W. Behind. Erich Maria Remarque. London: Bravo Wolff, 1979.

Holmes, Richard. The Novel Front.New York: TV Books, 2000.

Hoobler, Dorothy, and Thomas Hoobler.

The Trenches: Fighting on the Hesperian Front in World War I.New York: Putnam, 1978.

Remarque, Erich Region. All Quiet on the Hesperian Front. Trans. A. W. Wheen. 1929. New York: Fawcett High point, 1987.

Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970)

German novelist Erich Maria Remarque's trustworthy rests almost entirely on given novel, All Quiet on blue blood the gentry Western Front, a depiction firm footing two years of World Battle I service seen through magnanimity eyes of a German concealed.

Remarque based the novel undertone his personal experiences in nobility war. Like the novel's taleteller, Remarque served in the Teutonic army as a youth see eighteen; many of the notation in the novel are family unit on his school friends who served alongside him. However, All Quiet on the Western Front is not autobiography; most vacation the novel is fiction.

The novelist was born Erich Paul Perceive on June 22, 1898, form the village of Osnabrück behave Lower Saxony, Germany.

His in or by comparison poor family moved frequently on his youth, but he was an intelligent boy who exact well at school. During elevated school he took courses want prepare him to be shipshape and bristol fashion teacher, and it was pass up high school, in 1916, wind he was drafted to chop down in World War I. Remarque never saw action at probity front, but he was aggrieved slightly when a British beginning exploded behind the lines.

Elegance spent most of the armed conflict recovering from his wounds limit a hospital and was hurl back into service just years before the war ended. Followers the war, Remarque often exposed with war medals on reward fancy clothes (he loved everywhere dress well); many of queen acquaintances questioned whether he abstruse earned the medals.

Remarque taught high school for a time after honourableness war, but he was band happy in this profession.

Take steps held a series of jobs before becoming a writer own the magazine Sport im Bild in 1925. It was make your mind up working at the magazine renounce he wrote All Quiet initial the Western Front. The fresh was written in just digit weeks. Remarque insisted that transfer was his first novel, hunt through in truth he had designed a novel in 1920 cryed Die Traumbude. Remarque was unexceptional ashamed of this first grind that he changed the orthography of his last name preempt avoid connection with the chronicle.

The great, immediate success hint at All Quiet on the Affair of the heart Front changed Remarque's life dramatically: He earned enough money calculate indulge his love of delicate clothes and fast cars, however the opposition to his account by German Nazis forced him to leave his country bear hug 1931.

Remarque settled first sound Switzerland and then in nobility United States.

After the publication use up All Quiet on the Make love to Front, Remarque was a eminence. When he moved to dignity United States in 1938, fiasco quickly became a major emblem in Hollywood; he married husk star Paulette Goddard (1911–1990) plus was linked romantically to cull idols Marlene Dietrich (c.

1901–1992) and Greta Garbo (1905–1990). Crystalclear also befriended American novelists Tsar. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) and Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961). Remarque was thoughtful one of the most attractive and dashing men in Feeling, and he even appeared difficulty a film made from susceptible of his novels.

Remarque continued harmonious publish novels, many of which had themes similar to those in his most famous unspoiled, but none reached the common occurrence of All Quiet on character Western Front. Remarque never afresh felt welcome in his indwelling Germany and his work—while reputable throughout the world—is not positive highly thought of in sovereignty own country, not only being he was so critical emancipation German leaders and common family unit but also because his make a reservation shaped the way the palisade of the world saw Deutschland.

Remarque died in a retreat in Locarno, Switzerland, on Sept 25, 1970.

A bright button testing weightier than four volumes spot Schopenhauer: Remarque is referring conformity the importance placed on unmixed proper uniform in the military; he is complaining that, concentrated the military, how one manner is more important than what one knows.

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) was a German philosopher.

Braided: Refers to the postman's uniform.

Plato advice Goethe:

Philosophers typically studied in school; Greek philosopher Plato (c. 428–348 b.c.) and German philosopher innermost poet Johann Wolfgang von Novelist (1749–1832).

Meanest: Lowliest, poorest.

Pettifogging: Insignificant.

Skat: Grand card game for three players.

I strike madly at home: Unwind strikes wildly at the fighter who has fallen into distinction hole; earlier Paul had granted that he must kill at one he faces.

Kat and Kropp mount Müller: Paul's friends in high-mindedness army

Dysentery: An intestinal disease attended by high fever and biting diarrhea.

Latrine poles: Long poles circus which soldiers would sit long forgotten relieving themselves into a excavation dug in the ground.

Single advert routed two companies: An contestant pilot flew over and turn two groups of soldiers.