... who insists upon the necessity for violence. It is a conflict which figured strongly in Toller's own life, where the passion for a cause was forever colliding with an equally strong compassion for the individual. Im Westen Nicht Neues, by Erich Maria Remarque was published in 1929, a time when the idea of war novels was in the air, and a time when war fiction had hit a central nerve of the time, expressly that continued presence of the military establishment in all phases of German life and culture. The novel encapsulates the sheer brutality and blood thirst of the First World War, a war supposedly to end all wars (in which the novel is set), but it did not end all wars, and simply set the pattern for new and ever more mechanized killing. Mario und der Zauberer by Thomas Mann was published in 1930, after the inevitable collapse of ...

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