ou may have seen the recent Oscar-nominated movie , but did you know the director left out the main point of the book? Erich Remarque’ s classic novel highlights the way society urged Germany’ s youth to go to the front—to do their patriotic duty, bring glory to the fatherland, join the pantheon of heroes, etc., etc.—and then ignored them when they returned crippled and broken. Otto Dix’ s seminal paintings, one depicting a dog peeing on a war veteran without
