Paul Bäumer: The main character of the novel. Kat is his best friend. Kropp is his classmate along with most of the others on the front line in his company.
Katczinsky: Paul's close friend. Also known as Kat. He is way older than Paul too.
Albert Kropp: Went to school with Paul. He's the one that always asked questions of why they were fighting. Kropp and Paul get injured together and Kropp has to get a leg amputated.
Müller: Another one of Paul's classmates. He dies by getting shot with a flare gun.
Tjaden: A friend in Paul's company. He's a big guy that hates Himmelstoss in the begining, but after they fight a bunch on the front line with him Tjaden gets to like Himmelstoss.
Kantorek: The school teacher that gets Paul and his friends to enlist in the military. He is a patriotic guy that calls his class the "Iron Youth".
Himmelstoss: The commander of Paul's company. Everybody doesn't like him for his strict ways. Then the company realizes that it probably saved their lives in the field.
Kemmerich: This person went to the same school as Paul. He dies from a amputated leg in chapter 2.
Behm: The very first of Paul's classmates to die in the war. He dies from getting concussed and blinded in No Man's Land, then gunned down in front of the company from machine gun fire.
Detering: This is the guy that was in Paul's company and got particularly angry during the war because of the horse farm that got destroyed by artillery.
French Guy Paul Kills: Paul killed this man by stabbing him in the throat. It is the most intimate way Paul ever killed anyone in the war. He even read the diary of the man while hiding in a artillery crater.
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