In chapter six of All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, he develops the idea of disillusionment, an example of this is when Paul gives the description of the shelled school house, “stacked up against the longer side is a high double wall of yellow unpolished brand new coffins” (99) of all the soldiers who will die at the front which could end up being Paul and his comrades. Tjaden says this due to the fact that he knows, an abundance of the soldiers are going to die at the front. The recruits are dying because “they have hardly any training and are sent into the field with only theoretical knowledge” (129). With the recruits being sent to the front and them only having theoretical knowledge, and no combat knowledge is taking
