Paul Baumer and other members of the German war are relieved from the front line of battle (for 2 weeks straight) and are now resting; only 80 out of the 150 men made it back. After getting rest and waking up for mornings rations the cook still received supplies and food for 150- now the 80 men get to eat and relax in comfort with extra rations. The men receive a letter from their old school teacher explaining the they are “the iron youth” and after seeing their fellow soldier Kemmerich for the last time in the hospital before he dies they barter cigarettes to give him morphine and realize maybe they are… Paul and the other men realize that their life have been cut short and the older men have no life anymore, but on the positive side they
