By the time the armistice was whispered in the halls of power, Paul was already a ghost. The world he left behind no longer existed, and the world he inhabited was a hell of gray smoke and gas. On a day so quiet that the army reports consisted of a single sentence— All quiet on the Western Front —Paul finally laid down the weight of his rifle. He wasn't a hero or a traitor; he was simply a boy who had finally run out of luck in a world that had run out of mercy.
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The uniform Paul Bäumer wore was not new; it was a recycled second skin, stripped from a dead boy and scrubbed clean of the blood and the memory of its previous owner. When he first buttoned it, Paul felt the surge of "Kaiser, God, and Fatherland," a fervor fueled by the rhythmic shouting of schoolmasters who spoke of glory as if it were a physical prize to be collected. By the time the armistice was whispered in