Adolf Hitler, the most powerful dictator in the history of the world, had fear of a single novel he believed could collapse a plan to strengthen Germany and take over the world. All Quiet on the Western Front describes the experiences of a group of young men who fought in the German Army during World War One. Of course Germany lost World War One and had harsh surrender conditions under the Treaty of Versailles, specifically the 231 Clause. Germany could not build up its military, lost colonies and territory, had to pay reparations, and worst of all got the entire blame for World War One. Hitler knew that to achieve his goal of taking over the world, as outlined in Mien Kampf, he had to enable people to have faith in Germany and have the nationalism they did prior to World War One. Adolf Hitler banned All Quiet on the Western Front in Germany because in order for his plan of strengthening Germany and taking over the world to succeed he believed he had to instill nationalism in every German citizen and make them believe that Germany could be the most powerful country in the world; All Quiet on the Western Front showed weakness of Germany and bad conditions of war that would make German soldiers less confident and less willing to fight and make German citizens less supportive of a war.
Although All Quiet on the Western Front shows bravery of a group of young German soldiers, the novel also shows the horror of trench warfare and the terrible conditions of war. The conditions of war described in All Quiet on the Western Front made Hitler afraid that men would be deterred from wanting to fight for Germany or that German men would be less confident when they went to war so they would not be useful soldiers. Hitler had to be a mast...
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...of all German people of a war in order to fulfill his plan and that the conditions described in the novel would make the German people less likely to support a war. Hitler banned All Quiet on the Western Front because he knew he needed the support of the German people to achieve his goal of taking over the world.
Even though All Quiet on the Western Front showed bravery of a group of young German soldiers, the novel also showed the horror of trench warfare and the terrible conditions of war. Hitler not only knew that he had to ban the novel in order to ensure that the soldiers and German men would be willing to fight, but knew he had to ban the novel in order to get the German people on his side and gain their support. Adolf Hitler banned All Quiet on the Western Front so he could strengthen Germany and Germany’s military and achieve his goal of world domination.
All Quiet on the Western Front is a book written by Erich Maria Remarque. It was a book written to reflect the human cost of war. It shows us how war has a hidden face that most people do not see until it is too late. In the novel, he describes a group of young men who at first think war is glorious. But as the war drags on, the group discovers how war is not all it is set out to be. As the war went on, they saw their friends either die or be permanently wounded. Then the end comes when there was only one person left.
All quiet On the Western Front, a book written by Erich Maria Remarque tells of the harrowing experiences of the First World War as seen through the eyes of a young German soldier. I think that this novel is a classic anti-war novel that provides an extremely realistic portrayal of war. The novel focuses on a group of German soldiers and follows their experiences. Life for the soldiers in the beginning is a dramatic one as they are ordered up to the frontline to wire fences. The frontline makes Paul feel immediately different, as described here. "
Everyone knows what war is. It's a nation taking all of its men, resources, weapons and most of its money and bearing all malignantly towards another nation. War is about death, destruction, disease, loss, pain, suffering and hate. I often think to myself why grown and intelligent individuals cannot resolve matters any better than to take up arms and crawl around, wrestle and fight like animals. In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque puts all of these aspects of war into a vivid story which tells the horrors of World War 1 through a soldier's eyes. The idea that he conveys most throughout this book is the idea of destruction, the destruction of bodies, minds and innocence.
One of the main themes in All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is Futility of War. The novel takes place during the Great War and takes place in France. Paul Baumer is the main character in the book along with many of his friends. In the book the theme of futility of war appears in the beginning, middle and end of the novel and Baumer slowly becomes more aware of what war is really like.
Erich Maria Remarque’s classic novel All Quiet on the Western Front is based on World War I; it portrays themes involving suffering, comradeship, chance and dehumanization. The novel is narrated by Paul, a young soldier in the German military, who fights on the western front during The Great War. Like many German soldiers, Paul and his fellow friends join the war after listening to the patriotic language of the older generation and particularly Kantorek, a high school history teacher. After being exposed to unbelievable scenes on the front, Paul and his fellow friends realize that war is not as glorifying and heroic as the older generation has made it sound. Paul and his co-soldiers continuously see horrors of war leading them to become hardened, robot-like objects with one goal: the will to survive.
All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel that greatly helps in the understanding the effects war. The novel best shows the attitudes of the soldiers before the war and during the war. Before the war there are high morals and growing nationalist feelings. During the war however, the soldiers discover the trauma of war. They discover that it is a waste of time and their hopes and dreams of their life fly further and further away. The remains of Paul Baumer's company had moved behind the German front les for a short rest at the beginning of the novel. After Baumer became Paul's first dead schoolmate, Paul viewed the older generation bitterly, particularly Kantorek, the teacher who convinced Paul and his classmates to join the military. " While they taut that duty to one's country is the greatest thing, we already that death-throes are stronger.... And we saw that there was nothing of their world left. We were all at once terribly alone, and alone we must see it through."(P. 13) Paul felt completely betrayed. " We will make ourselves comfortable and sleep, and eat as much as we can stuff into our bellies, and drink and smoke so that hours are not wasted. Life is short." (P 139) Views of death and becoming more comfortable with their destiny in the r became more apparent throughout the novel. Paul loses faith in the war in each passing day. * Through out the novel it was evident that the war scarred the soldiers permanently mentally. Everyone was scared to go to war when it started.
Mein Kampf seemed like the only way to to fix everything that has happened to Germany after the first world war. Many young people in Germany at the time believed in the ideas of Mein Kampf. The first edition of Mein Kampf was given to every newly married couple as a gift so they could teach their kids the Nazi ways (Nizkor). It was not only the young but Universities that supported it. “From 1933 to 1939 an extensive indoctrination in the ideas of Mein Kampf was pursued in the schools and universities of Germany,” (Nizkor). European people did not look upon Mein Kampf and its writing as an act of terror; they saw it as a way to save themselves and to fix the way they looked in the world 's eyes after they started World war I and
Most of the book is focused inside the bunker where Hitler is weakened by a failed assassination attempt, while German soldiers were traveling through the Ardennes Forest in Luxembourg in an effort to win the war. It also provides insight into the minds of the men who dared to fight and the generals that led them. Additionally, it gives details about the last desperate attempt of Hitler to turn the tide of the war and keep Germany away from the Americans and the Russians; and, why Hitler thought the Jews were to blame for all of Germany’s
After World War I, Germany was in an agonizing crisis. They had lost the war they began, and their economy was a chaos. People were desperate for a rise in politics, for an improvement. So, they introduced, Adolf, who was their secret weapon. He had a significant hatreds, and thoughts, but most importantly he had a special capability. "Hitler had found his great talent for speaking. And he could see immediately that his powerful speaking could be easily bend the people to his will." (Wolosky pg. 16)
Anti-Semitism was influencing the minds of ordinary German civilians. Adolf Hitler had previously been in prison before he became ruler of Germany in his second attempt. During the time he was in prison, he wrote a book called 'Mien Kamph'. His book was incredibly racist. Anti-Semitic, Hitler expressed his hatred for the Jews and influenced his readers into hating these 'impure' people.
only thing to do in a time of war. It is seen that Hitler did not want
Adolf Hitler’s work Mein Kampf started a movement that changed the world. If people had not let blind rage and hatred cloud there minds, they would have noticed the lack of argumentative integrity held in his writing. Hitler fills his work with contradictory and false statements and absolutely no facts, and as a result a nation is torn, and the world is forever changed. If only people would have put some thought into the reading of Mein Kampf, history would have been much different.
Therefore, Hitler’s banning of All Quiet on the Western Front was performed for a myriad of reasons. He attempted to persuade the Germans that joining the army was beneficial and that Germany as a country was unbelievably strong. The book, however, suggested differently. Taking the most necessary and permanent action, Hitler banned the selling of Remarque’s genius novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, thus thrusting Germany, with one less obstacle, into the dangerous, disastrous, and deadly struggle that would forever be recorded in history as WWII.
He had a group of leaders, the SS, who were Nazis that willingly took any task given, including the mass murder of millions of Jews due to his belief that they were enemies to Germany. German citizens were talked into participating or believing in the most extreme of things, like violent pogroms, deportations, attacks, and executions. Through the novel’s perspicacity of the Third Reich, readers can see how Hitler’s reign was a controversial time period summed up by courage, extremity, and most important of all, loyalty. The main purpose of the book was to emphasize how far fear of Hitler’s power, motivation to create a powerful Germany, and loyalty to the cause took Germany during the Third Reich. During the Third Reich, Germany was able to successfully conquer all of Eastern Europe and many parts of Western Europe, mainly by incentive.
All Quiet on the Western Front is the story of Paul Baumer’s service as a soldier in the German army during World War I. Paul and his classmates enlist together, share experiences together, grow together, share disillusionment over the loss of their youth, and the friends even experience the horrors of death-- together. Though the book is a novel, it gives the reader insights into the realities of war. In this genre, the author is free to develop the characters in a way that brings the reader into the life of Paul Baumer and his comrades. The novel frees the author from recounting only cold, sterile facts. This approach allows the reader to experience what might have been only irrelevant facts if presented in a textbook.