“Strange to say, Behm was one of the first to fall. He got hit in the eye during the attack, and we left him lying for dead. We couldn’t bring him with us, because we had to come back helter-skelter. In the afternoon suddenly we hear him call, and saw him crawling about in No Man’s Land. He had only been knocked unconscious. Because he could not see, and was mad with pain, he failed to keep under cover, and so was shot down before anyone could fetch him” (Remarque). Soldiers were subject to watching this happen every day, the watch their friends die in the field knowing someday it will be them. The psychology of these people can become greatly disturbed this way, and might explain why so many soldiers had PTSD after returning. These were dark times in German, even when Germany lost the war none of the soldiers were sad. They were just glad they didn’t have to fight
“Strange to say, Behm was one of the first to fall. He got hit in the eye during the attack, and we left him lying for dead. We couldn’t bring him with us, because we had to come back helter-skelter. In the afternoon suddenly we hear him call, and saw him crawling about in No Man’s Land. He had only been knocked unconscious. Because he could not see, and was mad with pain, he failed to keep under cover, and so was shot down before anyone could fetch him” (Remarque). Soldiers were subject to watching this happen every day, the watch their friends die in the field knowing someday it will be them. The psychology of these people can become greatly disturbed this way, and might explain why so many soldiers had PTSD after returning. These were dark times in German, even when Germany lost the war none of the soldiers were sad. They were just glad they didn’t have to fight