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Kaitlyn 2022-04-19 09:02:11
During the First World War, the teacher advocated the idea of defending the motherland and fooled all the students in the class to join the army. They went to the army, only to realize that it was not the case at all. They couldn't eat enough every day, and the most important thing was to save their lives. The students died one after another. Paul went home on vacation, went to his alma mater, and saw the teacher lobbying the students again. He returned to the battlefield, and one of his classmates died. He went to the classmate and chatted with the people who had been away for a long time. When he encountered a bomb on the way, he carried the classmate back and found that the classmate was dead. One day, he saw a butterfly parked outside the trench, he reached out to catch the butterfly, at this time, he was shot
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Casimer 2022-01-03 08:01:12
In the 1930s, this film was definitely a high-profile blockbuster. War was made up of lies, death, tears, blood, hatred, friendship, wailing, and so on. People who have not experienced wars will never talk about wars. People who have not personally experienced the frontline will never say moving forward.
All Quiet on the Western Front quotes
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Professor Kantorek: Paul! How are you, Paul?
Paul Bäumer: [somber] Glad to see you, Professor.
Professor Kantorek: You've come at the right moment, Baumer! Just at the right moment!
[to students]
Professor Kantorek: And as if to prove all I have said, here is one of the first to go! A lad who sat before me on these very benches, who gave up all to serve in the first year of the war. One of the iron youth who have made Germany invincible in the field! Look at him. Sturdy and bronze and clear-eyed! The kind of soldier every one of you should envy! Paul, lad, you must speak to them. You must tell them what it means to serve your fatherland.
Paul Bäumer: No no, I can't tell them anything.
Paul Bäumer: You must, Paul. Just a word. Just tell them how much they're needed out there. Tell them why you went, and what it meant to you.
Paul Bäumer: I can't say anything.
Professor Kantorek: If you remember some deed of heroism, some touch of humility, tell about it.
[encouraging murmurs from the students]
Paul Bäumer: I can't tell you anything you don't know. We live in the trenches out there, we fight, we try not to be killed; and sometimes we are. That's all.
[students fidget, disappointed]
Professor Kantorek: No, no Paul!
Paul Bäumer: [angry] I've been there! I know what it's like!
Professor Kantorek: That's not what one dwells on, Paul!
Paul Bäumer: [bitterly] I heard you in here, reciting that same old stuff. Making more iron men, more young heroes. You still think it's beautiful and sweet to die for your country, don't you?
[Kantorek nods firmly]
Paul Bäumer: We used to think you knew. The first bombardment taught us better. It's dirty and painful to die for your country. When it comes to dying for your country it's better not to die at all! There are millions out there dying for their countries, and what good is it?
[muttering from students]
Professor Kantorek: [shocked] Paul!
Paul Bäumer: [angry] You asked me to tell them how much they're needed out there.
[to students]
Paul Bäumer: He tells you, "Go out and die!" Oh, but if you'll pardon me, it's easier to *say* go out and die than it is to do it!
Student: Coward!
Paul Bäumer: And it's easier to say it, than to watch it happen!
students: Coward! You're a coward! Coward!
Professor Kantorek: No! No, boys, boys! I'm sorry, Baumer, but I must say...
Paul Bäumer: We've no use talking like this. You won't know what I mean. Only, it's been a long while since we enlisted out of this classroom. So long, I thought maybe the whole world had learned by this time. Only now they're sending babies, and they won't last a week! I shouldn't have come on leave. Up at the front you're alive or you're dead and that's all. You can't fool anybody about that very long. And up there we know we're lost and done for whether we're dead or alive. Three years we've had of it, four years! And every day a year, and every night a century! And our bodies are earth, and our thoughts are clay, and we sleep and eat with death! And we're done for because you *can't* live that way and keep anything inside you! I shouldn't have come on leave. I'll go back tomorrow. I've got four days more, but I can't stand it here! I'll go back tomorrow! I'm sorry.
[exit]
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Hair-peak soldier: And manufacturers. They get rich.
[murmurs of agreement]
Albert Kropp: I think it's more a kind of fever. Nobody wants it in particular, and then all at once, there it is. We didn't want it. The English didn't want it. And here we are fighting.