![]() ![]() The agony of destroyed friendship is at the heart of “ All Quiet on the Western Front,” Erich Maria Remarque’s enduring novel about life and death in the trenches. When the incinerated body lying beside you is that of a childhood neighbor or schoolmate, the trauma of loss is intensified. ![]() Other combatant nations did this to one degree or another, but Germany had a particular devotion to the strategy, whose psychological underside soon became clear. ![]() The assumption was that geographical bonds strengthened solidarity. During the First World War, the German Army followed a practice of localized recruiting, whereby conscripts from a particular town or region were kept together when they were sent to the front. ![]()
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