Liebe deinen Nächsten

Even where he looks back, it is the present that he addresses. Wilhelm von Sternburg on Erich Maria Remarque. The fate of a small group of political refugees in the years 1937-1938: fleeing to Switzerland via Vienna and Prague, they are not safe from persecution by the Nazis even in neighboring countries. Surrounded by informers, without passports or homes, they are driven into illegality. In Paris, their situation becomes dramatically acute. The book has something of the quality of the Sermon on the Mount, something of the simplicity of all great poetry.