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A group of German schoolboys are seduced into going into fight in the Great War by listening to stories of heroism and the romance of war from their elders. The boys ride off to the battlefields on the big adventure only to find themselves beaten down by the emotional and physical horrors of battle, near starvation, attacks by rats in the trenches, boredom and loneliness. When one of the boys goes home on leave he is unable to tolerate the ministrations of his mother and the pompous declarations on the state of the war from men too old for the Front.
