However, that was not Jünger's intention. Because of the precise details of the depicted wartime experiences, including the horrors of war, the book was partly received positively by pacifists and among others, had an influence on Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970), author of All Quiet on the Western Front. His initially self-published debut, based on his own wartime diaries, described the war from the point of view of a front-line officer. The “ Stoßtruppführer” (assault group leader) was awarded the Pour le mérite in 1918Īfter the war, Jünger served first in the new Reichswehr (German military defense forces), during which time he wrote In Stahlgewittern (1920, english translation: The Storm of Steel, 1929), Der Kampf als inneres Erlebnis ( The Struggle as an Inner Experience, 1922), and the novel Sturm (1923).
He was promoted to lieutenant at the end of 1915, and he participated in the Battle of the Somme in 1916, the Battle of Cambrai in 1917, and the Spring Offensive in 1918. Just after finishing his secondary education in 1914, he volunteered and was sent with an infantry regiment to the western front. Ernst Jünger (1895-1998) grew up in a middle-class German home.
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