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Erich Maria Remarque

Died in 1970

Erich Maria Remarque was born Erich Paul Remark in 1898 in Osnabrück, the son of a bookbinder. Called up at eighteen, he was seriously wounded by shell fragments in Flanders in July 1917. The Nazis burned his books in 1933 and stripped him of German nationality in 1938; settled in Switzerland since the early 1930s, he went to the United States, where he was naturalised in 1947. He married the actress Paulette Goddard in 1958 and died in Locarno in 1970.

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