Remarque adapted the book Ten Days to Die, about Hitler’s final days, as a screenplay, and he also wrote for the stage. Four years earlier, his sister had been executed at the behest of Hitler’s ‘People’s Court’. His works were publicly burned by the Nazi German government, and in 1947 he and his first wife became naturalised citizens of the United States. Following the war he worked as a primary school teacher, and later as a librarian, a journalist and a technical writer.Īmong Remarque’s published novels were All Quiet on the Western Front, The Road Back, Three Comrades and Arch of Triumph. During his service he was wounded by shrapnel in the left leg, right arm and neck. At the age of 18 he was conscripted into the German army. Erich Maria Remarque was a German author and veteran of the First World War.
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