nction when he looks at these quiet men with their childlike faces and apostles' beards. Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, than they are to us. And yet we would shoot at them again and they at us if they were free." Paul examines the Russians, who were in the P.O.W. camp next to the camp in which Paul was at. He realizes that they are the same as him, human, and that they could one day be his comrades. So why would he want to kill them. He understands that the superior officers on both sides are the decision makers of a bunch of people. They have the power over the lives of these people. They could make a command for them to jump and run around in a circle.
             The second theme of "All Quiet on the Western Front" is Ethnicity and Intolerance. The theme Ethnicity is demonstrated by soldiers who have been to the front and the officers and leaders who have not been to the front. "At some table a document is signed be some persons whom none us knows, and then for years together that very crime on which formerly the worlds condemnation and severest penalty fall, becomes highest aim." The soldiers who have been to the front have a different to the officers and leaders who have been to the front because the soldiers have seen
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