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[[Image:Erich Maria Remarque.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Erich Paul Remark]]
'''Erich Maria Remarque''' (June 22, 1898 - September 25, 1970) is the pseudonym used by '''Erich Paul Remark''', a [[Germany|German]] [[World War I]] veteran and author of the
novel ''[[All Quiet on the Western Front]]'' (1929).
Born in Osnabrück in a [[Roman Catholic]] family of [[France|French]] ancestry, Remark volunteered for service in the Army at the outbreak of war<ref>Biography at [http://www.ilpotereelagloria.com/modules.php?name=Persone&rop=showcontent&id=157 ''Il Potere e la Gloria'']</ref> , and arrived on the front line in 1917. Within months he had been wounded, and spent the remainder of the war in the rear echelon.<ref>''Il Potere e la Gloria'', op cit.</ref>
In 1933 the [[National Socialist German Workers Party|Nazi party]], on the orders of [[Joseph Goebbels]]<ref>''Il Potere e la Gloria'', op cit.</ref> banned the novel and ordered copies to be burned. Since 1931 he had been living in [[Switzerland]], and in 1939 he emigrated to the United States, becoming a naturalized citizen there in 1947. In 1948 he returned to Switzerland, where he died in 1970.
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[[Category:Authors|Remarque, Erich Maria]]
[[Category:Authors|Remarque, Erich Maria]]