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The introductory paragraph of All Quiet on the Western Front states that the book's
purpose is "neither to be an accusation nor a confession." Remarque never actually says
that the book is not to condemn. In fact, that is exactly what All Quiet is--a
condemnation. It is quite true that Remarque never accuses either side or makes any
confession, but he does in fact condemn war altogether. In a critical response to All Quiet,
Modris Eksteins says that "All Quiet was not a book about the events of the war--it was
not a memoir--but an angry postwar statement about the effects of the war on the young
generation that lived through it," (Eksteins 336). Eksteins is correct in saying this because
an "angry postwar statement" is in essence a condemnation, and Remarque does set out to
convince readers that the young men of this generation, as a result of the war, have been
ruined.
The novel shows the digression of the soldiers from idealistic young men with
hopes and......

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