Word: kriegskameradschaft
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...thesis of his third. To those who have forgotten the War or to those who never knew it, Remarque's preoccupation with this one theme may seem morbid or adolescent. It is not the brotherhood of man that moves his pen but the brotherhood of comrades-in-arms (Kriegskameradschaft). Readers of Three Comrades thought they could detect an almost wistful note of old-soldierism in Remarque's latest. Though he never refers to the War as the good old days, his heroes have become, at least by implication, praisers of the terrible time when they were young...
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