Who are the real victims of war? Unfortunately, many people ask themselves this question after returning from combat, completely different than they were before the devastation. A large part of this group asking this question was young when they enlisted, so they don't know how to deal with the world in which they operate. Erich Note's All Quiet on the Western Front evokes this same group of young men during the First World War. These boys are also known as the Forgotten Generation because they lost everything during the war and were thus cast aside. The men of the Forgotten Generation returned from the war completely different and were hit harder than older men, Remarque repeatedly emphasizes in his work. A whole forgotten generation seems absurd to us today, but it was the harsh reality for the young soldiers of the First World War. Young men were driven to war by the only thing they believed in: their parents and their schoolmasters. Paul Baumer and his friends had just turned 19 when they enlisted, hoping to find heroism and recognition for their bravery among their peers, but they soon discovered that was not the case . After spending weeks in training camp, Paul realizes: “The war has taken us. For the others, the older men, it's just an interruption. They are able to think beyond. However, we are seized by it and we do not know what the end will be. We only know that in a strange and melancholy way we have become a wasteland” (20). The young men of war do not know their vision, they have lost the few things that were stable for them and cannot see beyond the war. Experienced war men know how to move forward after the war, but for these young men, the paper world didn't know how to deal with the pain they felt during the war. or how to keep their old life close to them, when old men had already felt burdens and therefore knew how to return to a normal life. The forgotten age of men during World War I had to return to a harsh and unforgiving world in which they had no experience. Older men fared better because they knew how to deal with the pain and stress of war. Unfortunately, the young men were unable to manage their emotions so they could return to the normal world. For these dismal young men the world was foreign and strange, many of them did not return from the war but the few who did faced more difficulties than their fallen comrades. Erich Note's All Quiet on the Western Front showed the real inner battle of emotions that these young men experienced during and after the war and that the prepared, older soldiers did not face..