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All Quiet On The Western Front.
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All Quiet On The Western Front Remarque was born in Osnabrück, Lower Saxony. His mother was Anna Marie Kramer and father, Peter Maria Kramer, a bookbinder. He drafted into German army at the age of 18, and was wounded several times. After his discharge, Remarque had taken a teacher's course offered to veterans by the government. Remarque began his writing career as a sporting journalist, and assistant editor of Sportbild. Fame came with his first novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, which touched a nerve of the time. In the 1930s Remarque's books were banned by the Nazis. All Quiet on the Western Front was among the works consigned to be publicly burnt in 1933 by the Nazis. In 1938 Remarque lost his German citizenship, and left Germany after that. First, Remarque went to Switzerland and moved later to the United States, where he made friends with...
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