Screen shot 2014 04 09 at 1.05.49 pm

AQWF

  • start of WWII

    start of WWII
    WWI also known as the First World War.
  • in the beginning

    Paul Baumer and his friends, Kropp, Muller, Tjaden, Westhus and Katczinki, are already in the war and been in battle, pushed to enlist by their teacher Kantorek.
  • himmelstoss

    Baumer and his friends are placed under the command of Corporal Himmelstoss.
  • bombardment

    At the front lines Kat predicts a bombardment later and then they see one from a distance and then a few get close enough to hit them.
  • younger years

    Paul reminisces about life before the war and how beautiful and easier life was.
  • the hospital

    Paul makes it back to the group but is injured along the way and learns that Kropp has been too.
  • Parting Ways

    After spending months in recouperation the pair has to split up. Kropp will live but he has to go to a different hospital to get a prosthetic leg and Paul goes back to the war. Sadly, this is the last you hear of Kropp.
  • paul attends school

    Paul and the rest of unit 2 are all attending school together
  • paul enters the war.

    paul enters the war.
    The Erik Maria Remarck novel,<Im Westen, Nichts Neues> in the original German, is set in World War 1, which began August 1914.
  • paul in the trenches

    paul in the trenches
    "We trudge onward in single file through the trenches and shell-holes and come again to the zone of mist. Katczinsky is restive, that's a bad sign."
  • extra rashions

    extra rashions
    It was fairly quiet on our sector, so the quartermaster who remained in the rear had requisitioned the usual quantity of rations and provided for the full company of one hundred and fifty men.
  • kemmerick dies

    Kemmerick had gotten injured, and had his foot amputated
  • Paul goes on leave

    Paul gets to go home for 17 days
  • paul stabs

    Paul is hiding in a shell hole, and a French soldier jumps in too
  • hiding with a dead man

    The man slowly dies and Paul doesn’t have the heart to stab him again to put him out of his misery.
  • Paul is injured

    Paul's arm becomes broken by a piece of shrapnel
  • Paul Returns to Front

    Paul returns to the front at the beginning of the Summer of 1918 having recovered from his injuries.
  • The Loss of a Friend

    Kat is injured badly and Paul carries him piggyback to the nearest dressing station.
  • Paul Inhales Posion Gas

  • paul dies

    aul is killed on a quiet day in October just before the end of the war.