Aqwf Characters

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Paul Bäumer

Back 1

A young German soldier fighting in the trenches during World War I. Paul is the protagonist and narrator of the novel. He is, at heart, a kind, compas-sionate, and sensitive young man, but the brutal expe-rience of warfare teaches him to detach himself from his feelings. His account of the war is a bitter invective against sentimental, romantic ideals of warfare.
Paul is sniped, report said aqwf October of 1918

Front 2

Stanislaus Katczinsky

Back 2

- army friend(cobbler)
best friend in the army
is forty years old at the beginning of the novel and has a family at home
resourceful, inventive and always finds food, clothing, and blankets
dying from a shrapnel wound in the head after a bullet has hit his shin

Front 3

Albert Kropp

Back 3

classmates who serves with Paul in the Second Company. An intelligent, speculative young man, Kropp is one of Paul’s closest friends interest in analyzing the causes of the war leads to many antiwar sentiments
shot in the leg above the knee,amputate the leg (wants to kill himself)
gets an infection and fever

Front 4

Müller

Back 4

One of Paul’s classmates. Müller is a hardheaded, practical young man, and he plies his friends in the Second Company with questions about their postwar plans.
He dies from a shot of a light pistol in the stomach,gives boots to paul

Front 5

Tjaden

Back 5

One of Paul’s friends in the Second Company. Tjaden is a wiry young man with a voracious appetite. He bears a deep grudge against Corporal Himmelstoss.
death comes after long battle marches(doesn’t say how)

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Kantorek

Back 6

A pompous, ignorant, authoritarian schoolmaster in Paul’s high school during the years before the war. Kantorek places intense pressure on Paul and his classmates to fulfill their “patriotic duty” by enlisting in the army.

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Corporal Himmelstoss

Back 7

A noncommissioned training officer. Before the war, Himmelstoss was a postman. He is a petty, power,hungry little man who torments Paul and his friends during their training. After he experiences the horrors of trench warfare, however, he tries to make amends with them.

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Franz Kemmerich

Back 8

One of Paul’s classmates and comrades in the war. After suffering a light wound, Kemmerich contracts gangrene, and his leg has to be amputated. His death, in Chapter Two, marks the reader’s first encounter with the meaninglessness of death and the cheapness of life in the war.

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Joseph Behm

Back 9

The first of Paul’s classmates to die in the war. Behm did not want to enlist, but he caved under the pressure of the schoolmaster, Kantorek. His ugly, painful death shatters his classmates’ trust in the authorities who convinced them to take part in the war.
Not old enough and dies before he would have been allowed to join

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Detering

Back 10

One of Paul’s close friends in the Second Company. Detering is a young man with a wife and a farm at home; he is constantly homesick for his farm and family. Runs away, found and court marshaled

Front 11

Gérard Duval

Back 11

A French soldier whom Paul kills in No Man’s Land. Duval is a printer with a wife and child at home. He is the first person that Paul kills in hand-to-hand combat, one of Paul’s most traumatic experiences in the war.

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Leer

Back 12

One of Paul’s classmates and close friends during the war. Leer serves with Paul in the Second Company. He was the first in Paul’s class to lose his virginity.
Dies from bullet to chest trying to stop people from getting flame thrower

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Haie Westhus

Back 13

One of Paul’s friends in the Second Company. A gigantic, burly man, Westhus was a peat-digger before the war. He plans to serve a full term in the army after the war ends, since he finds peat-digging so unpleasant.struck in the back during an attack,
himmelelstoss carries him back,dies soon after

Front 14

Kindervater

Back 14

A soldier in a neighboring unit. Kindervater is a bed wetter like Tjaden.

Front 15

Lewandowski

Back 15

A patient in the Catholic hospital where Paul and Kropp recuperate from their wounds. Lewandowski desperately wants to have sex with his visiting wife but is confined to bed because of a minor fever.

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Mittelstaedt

Back 16

One of Paul’s classmates. Mittelstaedt becomes a training officer and enjoys tormenting Kantorek when Kantorek is conscripted as a soldier.

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Josef hamacher

Back 17

wounded solder in catholic hospitl
Has shooting license so can do what he wants
Take blame for thing people do in hospital

Front 18

Lieutenant bertinck

Back 18

commander 2nd company
Dies killing guy with flame thrower