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| | Booknotes |
 | | Born Erich Paul Remark on June 22, 1898, he grew up in a Roman Catholic family in Osnabrück in the province of Westphalia, Germany- a city in the northwest part of what is now West Germany. |
 | | In November 1916, when Remarque was eighteen and a third-year student at Osnabruck's Lehrerseminar (teachers college), he was drafted for World War I. After basic training at the Westerberg in Osnabruck (the Klosterberg of All Quiet), he was assigned to a reserve battalion, but often given leave to visit his seriously ill mother. |
 | | Remarque's sequel to All Quiet, based on his and his friends' experiences after they returned from the front, was published in 1931. |
| www.erft.de /schulen/abtei-gym/remarque/alquiet1.htm (1955 words) |
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