Kantorek

" I am a former schoolteacher and my goal it inspires young boys to sign to the war. For me the war is a honor and the best way to show my patriotism and love for my father land. I represent the nationalism, the ideology of unswerving dedication to one's own country. My patriotic sentiments and bullying forced Paul and his classmates, what I proudly called the "'Iron Youth'", into volunteering for the war. Paul gains some measure of revenge when he sees that I have been enlisted in the war; at least I must now fight and possibly die for the war I have helped promote."