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Paul B&228umerPaul told the story of the war as it happened to him. The commentator is taken from the front line, to a catholic hospital, to his home while he is away on leave. His story tells of the sacrifice the soldiers gave defending their country. It also tells of the difficulties of losing friends, killing some other man, and going day after day without much, if any, sleep. He died in October of 1918, just before the war ended. His death was described as this, ...his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come. Stanislaus KatczinskyKatczinsky, or Kat as he is referred to, is the leader of this group of men. He is the oldest at the age of forty, and also the wisest. His sagaciousness was always taken and his orders were followed. Paul also believe Kat to have a sixth sense. He was able to find anything that was takeed in places where no one else could. Once he went out to explore, then came back over an hour later with bread and meat for dinner. & nbsp Albert KroppAlbert was one of the students that enlisted at the same cartridge holder as Paul. He was also a close friend of Pauls. So close that after both had been wounded and were on a train home, when Albert became wander and was scheduled to be taken off at the next stop, Paul went off with him. After this stop they were sent to a hospital to be enured for their wounds. Paul after a few weeks ended up healing fine, the opposite was true for Albert. An infection spread through his leg leading for the need for it to be amputated at the thigh. When Paul returned to the war these two friends parted, never to see each other again.   Josef BehmJosef Behm was described as a plump fellow who, at firstborn, did not want to join the war efforts. Later, after being called a coward, he was convinced by his schoolmaster and fellow students to join the army. He was the first of his schoolmates to be killed in action. DeteringDetering was a man who mainly kept to himself. He is described as a peasant who thinks of no more than his farmland and his wife. On the way back from the front line he saw a cherry tree with white blossoms.