All Quiet on the Western Front By Erich Maria Remarque Summary
and Analysis Chapter 7   At the field depot, Second Company
takes a brief, well deserved rest. They are reorganizing, in
need of more than a hundred reinforcements. Himmelstoss is
friendly and, because he brought Westhus back after he was
wounded, Paul is kinder to him. Himmelstoss also took over the
cooking from Ginger, so he brings Paul and his friends food. At
rest and full of food, Paul cannot think of the front line.
Instead, he recounts who is dead and wounded and tries to use
humor to keep his thoughts straight. Kropp and Paul find a
theatre poster from a long-since-abandoned theatre. The girls in
the poster remind them of the life they had forgotten, and they
look at themselves and see the many layers of civilization that
are gone. Paul and the others decide to visit the delousing
station.  Billeted near a canal, Paul and his friends swim naked
and flirt in makeshift, broken French with three French girls.
After the soldiers promise food,