“There used to be some food in the sawdust. Now it's all sawdust. No...” – Tjaden, All Quiet on the Western Front ... Movie Quotes Database

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Tjaden Slim Summerville

There used to be some food in the sawdust. Now it's all sawdust. No joke either.

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Tjaden Replacements are all like that. Not even old enough to carry a pack. All they know how to do is die. Tjaden If he were out, the war would be over. You remember what he always said: 'They're savin' him for the last.' German Professor Here is one of the first to go, a lad who sat before me on these very benches who gave up all to serve in the first year of the war. One of the iron youth who have made Germany invincible in the field. Look at him, sturdy and bronze and clear-eyed, the kind of soldier every one of you should envy.