Initially, the film was approved for German viewers by the Supreme Censorship Board in Berlin on November 21, 1930. Adapted for the big screen The film version of "All Quiet on the Western Front" did not appeal to the Nazis Image: picture-alliance/AKGĪ year later, an American production company adapted the novel into a film directed by Lewis Milestone. They spread rumors that Remarque had assumed a false surname and was actually called "Kramer." And they claimed that he was a French Jew, and also that he did not fight as a soldier in the First World War. Yet the roaring success of a novel detailing the horrors of the First World War did not go over well with the National Socialists, who were then preparing to assume power. In Germany alone, nearly half a million copies were sold within months.
It was, at that time of its release, the greatest success in German literary history: Erich Maria Remarque's anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues) was published on Januand was quickly translated into 26 languages.
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