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“What has Kantorek written to you?” Müller asks him. He laughs. “We are the Iron Youth.” We all three smile bitterly, Kropp rails: he is glad that he can speak. Yes, that’s the way they think, these hundred thousand Kantoreks! Iron Youth! Youth! We are none of us more than twenty years old. But…” quote by Erich Maria Remarque
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““What has Kantorek written to you?” Müller asks him. He laughs. “We are the Iron Youth.” We all three smile bitterly, Kropp rails: he is glad that he can speak. Yes, that’s the way they think, these hundred thousand Kantoreks! Iron Youth! Youth! We are none of us more than twenty years old. But young? Youth? That is long ago. We are old folk.””

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