“This story is neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped its shells, were destroyed by the war…”
– opening title card for All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and adapted epigraph from the novel of the same name
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