All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet on the Western Front-- NEED ANSWERS 1. How does the German school teacher encourage his students to enlist?

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The boys' teacher tells stories about the glory of war and encourages the boy to fight.... and when the boys were hesitant, he simply intimidated them.

Kantorek had been our schoolmaster, a stern little man in a grey tailcoat, with a face like a shrew mouse. He was about the same size as Corporal Himmelstoss, the "terror of Klosterberg." It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.

During drill-time Kantorek gave us long lectures until the whole of our class went, under his shepherding, to the District Commandant and volunteered. I can see him now, as he used to glare at us through his spectacles and say in a moving voice: "Won't you join up, Comrades?"