Germans are right to be incensed by All Quiet on the Western Front: it paints them as the good guys (The Guardian)

Berger removes everything subtle in the book and replaces it with something absurdly bombastic, as befits a Prestigious, Important War Movie. He also omits an astonishing number of the book’s key episodes, and shoves in just as many new ones of his own.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/27/germans-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-novel-film

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