'Forgive me, comrade'

"[...] But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony ? Forgive me, comrade ; how could you be my enemy?"

Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 9

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All Quiet On the Western Front is by far my favourite book ; it describes WWI from a german point of view, with a very strong style.

The characters of this drawing are two WWII men, american and german, while the book's scene relates a WWI german soldier trying to save the life of a french ennemy. This changing was just a graphic choice. Anyway this scene could happen during any war...

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