They left for war as boys never to return as men.
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
friendship
army
based on novel or book
germany
disillusion
world war i
steel helmet
patriotism
boot camp
battlefield
atrocity
black and white
soldier
combat
warfare
death
pre-code
anti war
mud
trenches
young soldier
battlefield trauma
philosophical depiction of war