![]() Visit the Cantigny Park website for more details. Make a point to see the World War I trench recreation in the First Division Museum, complete with a tank! Please note the museum is closed on Mondays and some holidays. With this pass, you will get entry into the grounds, museum, tank park and other attractions. You can visit Cantigny Park for free by stopping by the Fountaindale Public Library Information Desk (or your own local library) and picking up a free pass through our Museum Adventure Pass program. ![]() You’ll also want to pair this film with a visit to Cantigny Park in Wheaton, Illinois. I highly recommend watching the film in its original German with subtitles instead of the dubbed English version. You can see the bitterness and humiliations which planted the seeds for the rise of European fascism. Intermingled in the experiences of Paul and his fellow soldiers are the diplomatic and political negotiations between Germany and France. This film provides a brutal and unflinching look at a war that most people don’t know much about-brought to the screen with the advantages of modern cinematic techniques. For all their mechanical issues, tanks were giant crawling insects of death, crushing men to bits if they fell in its wake. Another change between the book and the film includes the addition of French tanks raiding the trenches. ![]() I’ve never before seen soldiers bailing water out of the trenches or breaking German dog tags in half and leaving the other piece to help identify the deceased for burial. What sets this film apart from others in this genre is the seamless integration of historical accuracy with a gripping narrative. For example, this film drops you directly into a conflict where common sights include gas masks, flame throwers, tanks, night flares, near starvation and scattered remains lodged in trees. This new incarnation of All Quiet on the Western Front accurately portrays battlefield debris, hand-to-hand combat, flame throwers, identifying the dead and dugout artillery through an unflinching lens. A book based on this photograph is a great read. While this is a fictional tale, Paul and his friend’s journey from civilian life to the trenches of the Great War mirrors that of the men depicted in Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance, taken in Germany in 1914 by August Sander. The lost voices of this generation who lived and died in the shadow of war are skimmed over in our modern American films and history books. In turn, the job of actually designing the. Army Surgeon General and the Medical Department with designing and overseeing the manufacture of an American made gasmask. If you’ve read the book or one of the many previous film and television adaptations, it’s not a stretch to see how the lives of so many young men were wasted. The American Small Box Respirator was the first attempt at a gas mask made in the United States to combat the chemical gases used in the war. As the war progresses, Paul and his friends undergo the hardships of military trench warfare, which drags on to the final haunting minutes before the Armistice cease-fire.Ĭritics and readers have long hailed the original book for its anti-war theme. ![]() The protagonist and his close-knit group of friends answer the call to enlist in the army together. Published less than a decade after the end of the Great War, All Quiet on the Western Front centers on Paul Bäumer, a German soldier on the Western Front during World War I. If you don’t have a personal Netflix account, you can place a hold and check out one of our library’s Rokus, packed with movies and other subscription services. I read and watch a lot of Great War-related items, so I made a point to watch the new version of All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) on Netflix, which was superb. Our current Veterans Day commemorations grew out of Armistice Day, which marked the end of World War I in 1919. Cox apparently suffered no short term effects from the gassing - his June 16, 1919, honorable discharge reported him being "0 percent disabled.November is National Veterans and Military Families Month, and Veterans Day is on November 11. After training at Camp Bowie, Cox was deployed to Europe where he was one of 70,552 Americans exposed to gas during the war. He served as a private in Company B, 7th Infantry before rising to a sergeant in Company H, 142nd Infantry, 36th Division, a consolidated unit of infantries from Oklahoma and Texas. entered the war, gas masks such as this one had been developed with chemical absorbents that limited the impact of chloride gas. An eyewitness account described the impact as "a burning sensation in the head, red-hot needles in the lungs, the throat seized as by a strangler." By the time the U.S. This gas mask was worn by 21 year old Levi Nathan Cox from Clarendon, Texas.Ĭhemical warfare using chloride gas was first released by German troops on April 22, 1915, killing 1,100 Allied soldiers and injuring an unknown number of others. Gas masks were developed in WWI to protect soldiers from the effects of chloride gas. ![]()
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