Difference between revisions of "Erich Maria Remarque"

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-[[Image:Erich Maria Remarque.jpg|right|thumb|150px|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.
-==References==
-<references/>
-[[Category:Authors|Remarque, Erich Maria]]

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