All Quiet on the Western Front Page #5

Corporal Himmestoss

said he'd meet us here.

Ah.

Corporal who?

Himmestoss.

From Oldenberg training station?

Yes, sir.

I don't believe it!

Vengeance is mine.

No, sir. He got into trouble.

Overdid it with two trainees on

the muddy field. You know the field?

Do we know the muddy field?

He went too far. Almost killed them.

He didn't see the son of the local

magistrate watching.

So, he's here.

Of course he'd spoil it for himself.

Oh, Lord. I can hardly wait.

Oh, well. Look who's here.

Well, we meet again.

Kropp, isn't it? You remember me,

Corporal Himmestoss.

Mller, you here too?

Oh, yes, I remember you very well.

Lehr, Behm, Baumer... Baumer.

Nothing wrong with my memory!

You've all managed

to stay alive.

Not Kemmerich.

Kemmerich?

I don't remember Kemmerich.

The rest of you seem to have learned

your lessons pretty well.

don't you turn your back.

What did you say?

So this is the great

Corporal Himmestoss?

And who are you?

I asked you a question, soldier.

Himmestoss.

There's a latfine down the road.

Why don't you take a jump?

Do you want to be court martialled?

Stand up straight, hees together,

when your superior officer

speaks to you.

All of you!

Squad, attention!

Right... face.

Right turn, forward... march.

Left, left, left, left.

Left, left,

left, left, left, left.

Easy, boy, easy.

It'll be all right.

Ah, you see the way he blows up?

Boom, like that.

Want to kill Frenchmen?

You'll be all right, boy.

You'll get used to it.

To soften us up so we can't sleep.

Huh, then when they attack,

we won't be able to fight back

because we're too tired.

Two days and nights. How much longer?

Not too long, not too long.

Why don't they stop?

Where are you going?

I'll be back... in a minute.

No, just relax. Wait. It'll be over

soon. Come on, sit down and relax.

Let me go. I must get away.

Sit down and calm down.

Now, go and sit down.

Behave yourselves. Be easy, quiet.

I said...

Come on, let's go.

Come on... come on.

'No longer do we lie helpless,

awaiting destruction.

'We can destroy and kill

to save ourselves and to be revenged.

'When we see their faces,

we become wild beasts.

'We turn into thugs and murderers.

'Into God only knows what devis.

'If your own father was with them,

Forward!

Fire.

What the hell is this?

Come on, let's go. Come on, you all.

Come on, move. You too, soldier.

Come on, let's go.

let's go, let's go.

What's happening down there?

Come on.

Come on!

Come on!

'How long is it? Days,

of weeks, of months, of years?

'Attack, counter-attack.

And the dead pile up.

'Winter, summer... The days are hot

and the dead lie unburied.

'The shels will bury them.

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