And though All Quiet on the Western Front may appear, at first glance, as a novel committed to revealing the senseless horrors of modern warfare with an extraordinary fierceness - indeed, it partly was - beneath the graphic prose resides a perception of World War I unprecedented for its time. ... This combination of awareness and honesty would render Remarque both praised by many for his literary genius and despised by the ultra-Nationalist Nazi regime - the latter held book burnings of All Quiet on the Western Front after exiling Remarque to Switzerland. ... (All subsequent historical refe...

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The Thirty Years War was a series of European conflicts that lasted from 1618 to 1648. ... England, France, and other western European powers were alarmed at the increasing might of the Habsburgs, but France who was catholic and England who was protestant, were then allies against Spain and refrained from immediate intervention in the war because of domestic difficulties. ... The combined imperial armies overran all of northern Germany, leaving many pillaged towns and villages in their wake. ... This document nullified Protestant titles to all Roman Catholic property expropriated since the Pe...

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