Death and Defeat

AS soon as the americans joined the army the Germans were pretty much doomed. Many of pauls former classmates had already been killed but in chapter 11, Müller got shot in the abdoment, Kat ws wounded and paul carried him a long way and then realizes he was dead, Detering dies with the cherry blossom because he got captured trying to escape. Paul gets to leave for 14 days because of the gas he had inhaled, he was worried that when he came home his entire generation would be gone. Everyone that he had gone through this expirence with as well as go to school with was deceased. Even Kat who was his mentor and leader in a sense was dead. Paul was the only one left to understand, the only men who could understand him were long gone, returning to home would almost be pointless because things would never be the same. Paul "i am the last of the 7 fellows from our class." There was rumor of the war ending soon which kept men from going to the front of the line, the american soldiers are forces were too strong. The men fighting out there were loosing their lives for no reason, there were no chances of the germans making it through this war so the men were just dying without purpose.