Paul is a high school student in Germany. He and his classmates were inspired by the fanatical militarist teacher Cantorek. He incited the slogan of "patriotism" and passively "voluntarily" enlist in the army. received military training in the barracks for just 10 weeks and rushed to the front trenches.
We were surprised first, then we suffered. Finally, we realized indifferently that it was not the spirit that played a decisive role, but the shoe brush, not the thought, but the system, not freedom, but training.
10 weeks of military training in the barracks have thoroughly transformed Paul and others, and there are also physical and mental training by non-commissioned officers. In the end, they become cold, suspicious, ruthless, full of hatred, cruel and rude...
But what does this matter? Paul and the others lack such traits, which is better than being sent directly into the trenches and being driven crazy. It's like a frightened hare running around in the trenches and becoming a target for enemy shooting.
This is the story that "No War on the West Front" is about to begin. This is a story about World War I. Princes and nobles and other superiors launched a war, but let civilians and students fight each other without grievances.
Author Erich Maria Remak is a German writer. He enlisted in the army at the age of 18 and devoted himself to World War I. During this period, he was injured many times. Ten years later, based on his experience in participating in the war, he wrote this novel "No War on the Western Front", which caused a sensation in many countries. It was translated into 26 languages in the year of publication. The second year of publication, it sold more than one million copies in Germany alone. Later, due to fascist persecution, he was forced to go into exile in other countries.
"No War on the West Front" intuitively describes the fate and experience of a generation who walked from school to battlefield in World War I and eventually died in the brutal war machine.
War tore all the good life apart, and Paul and his companions' only motivation is to live. Before it collapsed, only to adapt to such a life. In this process, Paul and his companions developed a solid and practical spirit of unity, which was sublimated into the best friendship of comrades on the battlefield.
In order to survive, Paul and his comrades always try their best to fill their stomachs. Due to the uncertainty of the war, they don’t know whether they will be alive in the next second. every meal on the battlefield may become the "last supper".
During a frontline defense change, Paul's company suddenly suffered a fierce attack from British heavy artillery. In the end, only more than half of the people who returned alive, so they got double the food. They brought the rice plate to serve the rice, filled the food so that it overflowed, and their stomachs were bloated and painful, and they had to leave a few plates of food for reserve.
For a soldier, he and his stomach and intestine are closer to him than others.
On a way to the front line, Paul and Carter accidentally heard the geese cry from the headquarters. They cooperated with each other at night and successfully caught the geese. Then they sneaked into an abandoned warehouse and roasted geese inside. While enjoying the delicious food, they did not forget to bring delicious food to other comrades.
Another time, Paul and his team were assigned to guard a village and take care of the military ration warehouse that had not yet been cleared. Paul and his comrades searched the houses near the village and found eggs, butter, and two lively piglets. In the midst of artillery fire, they held an extremely sumptuous banquet in the underground air-raid shelter.
The reason why we are greedy is because eating enough can save lives.
Paul came back on vacation once, and because of his uneasiness, he signed up for a nightly reconnaissance mission with his comrades. Paul encountered danger in a crater in the middle of the firefight in Germany and France, and his extreme fear caused him to collapse. At the same time, another "enemy" jumped into his crater and crossed it to him. Paul stabbed at the "enemy" like crazy. Afterwards, he regretted it and wanted to bandage the "enemy" and save him.
But his eyes were shouting and roaring.In those eyes, all his life was condensed into an incredible escape, a terror of death and me.
Paul struggled and feared in the process of death of the "enemy". He was the first person Paul killed with his own hands, and in the end he watched the death. Paul didn't want to kill him, but there was no if, the battlefield was in the face, either you died or I died.
Finally, Paul thought that the person's wife and parents would be in pain because of his guilt, and wanted to help his family. Under great pressure, Paul hesitated to get his letter clip and see his name and photos of his wife and daughter.
I swear blindly: I will survive only for him and his family—to convince him, I said it out loud. There is hope hidden deep in my heart: I can redeem my sins and maybe I can escape from it.
Finally, Paul heard his comrades talking in the struggle with fear, and his comrades came out to find him. The words of comrades in the army gave Paul a great encouragement and cheered him up.
In a row, Paul's team was scattered by artillery fire. During the running, Paul and his comrade Albert were hit by bullets and were finally sent to a field hospital.
In field hospitals, they regard the operating room as a "slaughterhouse", Because doctors in field hospitals often give people amputations, Paul does not want to be amputated and refuses to take anesthesia. For this reason, Paul endured the pain and was removed from the bullet. Compared to being amputated, what does that little pain count?
In field hospitals, there are wounded people who are shot in the abdomen, spine, head and amputation on the head; there are wounded people who are shot in the jaw, gas poisoning, nose, ears, and neck; there are wounded people who are shot in the eyes, lungs, pelvis, joints, kidneys, testes, and stomach. Only when you get here can you know that you can get shot all over your body.
This is just a field hospital, a ward - there are thousands in Germany, thousands in France, and thousands in Russia. If all this can happen, then writing, acting, thinking will be completely futile! If thousands of years of civilization cannot stop bleeding and painful imprisonment, then everything is a lie and is insignificant. Only field hospitals indicate what war is.
In the field hospital, Paul saw all kinds of wounded people, and all kinds of deaths were staged every day. And this is just a microcosm of war, and there are many similar scenarios all over the world.
Why should there be war? War is the will of those in power. forced most ordinary people to join the war and waved weapons to ordinary people from other countries. No one likes war, and no one wants it, but at that time, half of the world joined the war.
was bombed by grenades, corroded by poisonous gas, burned lungs, crushed by tanks, and death was staged on the battlefield every day. Here, dysentery, flu, and typhoid fever are also popular, and the atmosphere is suffocating. Here, besides trenches, there are field hospitals and group tombs, and there is no other possibility.
Nothing is more exciting than a truce and peace. Paul longs for a simple life in his dreams. However, on the battlefield, only by killing in battle can one obtain liberation.
He was killed in October 1918. That day, the entire front line was silent. There is only one record in the military command report: There is no war on the Western Front
What a great irony. They were destroyed by the war and could not go back and were left on the battlefield.
#I want to go to the headlines# #No war on the Western Front#
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