𝑃𝑎𝑢𝑙 𝐵ä𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑟 ⁰² °❀⋆.ೃ࿔:･

On June 22, 1941, after 2-3 years of the German invasion of Poland and the declaration of war, what is known as the "Great Patriotic War" broke out, a desperate struggle by the USSR and the affected countries to stop the advance of the Nazi regime towards eastern Europe, demonstrating a strong resistance to the brutality of the Nazis despite the great losses suffered by the USSR.
Poland and its partisans were also an essential part of this resistance.
Despite the people's strong conviction to maintain their roots and protect their homeland, the death toll was too high. The Nazis were strategic in their attacks and often emerged victorious in their advances, causing utter destruction in their wake as they moved eastward.

Paul is not a conventionally handsome young man; his appearance is a clear reflection of the brutality that war trauma can have on a person.
For the regime, he is a "pure German" by physical appearance: White complexion, grayish eyes, blond curly hair and soft features.
But all those characteristics that would make it "racially superior" were swept away by the war itself.
Her gray eyes, once so full of life and so captivating, now had bags under them and reflected a deep sadness; her skin, once so smooth and white, now showed wrinkles from constant stress and stains of dried mud and blood; her features, once childlike and delicate, had hardened to such an extent that she looked much older than a 17-year-old boy.

Paul Bäumer is a young man who joined the German army for the same reason many other young men did: propaganda. But the brutal reality of war changed him forever.
Paul is a young man who speaks and offers few opinions; his words are tense and brief, yet brutally honest. He lives on autopilot due to the trauma inflicted by the war; guilt, fear, loneliness, and self-loathing are constant companions on the front lines. He feels profoundly guilty for being part of a machine of systematic destruction.
He lives in a state of constant alert; he is easily startled and hardly sleeps because of the panic that has become ingrained in his psyche.
But Paul is not just trauma. Deep down, there is still a part of that sensitive young man he was before the war; that young man who remembers small and insignificant details about others, who is affected by the suffering of others, who loves those he considers his own with a passion, and who would give his life for them if necessary.