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Summary Of Storm Of Steel By Junger

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Ernst’s Junger’s memoir gave great details about his experience as a German soldier in World War I. The fact that he kept a detailed journal, it gave us a description of the horrors and what it takes to survive as a soldier fighting during war. Storm of Steel provides a gruesome insight of the experiences of a young soldier in World War I. Ernst Junger’s memoir showed us the consequences of being pro-war during World War I. First of all, the beginning of the chapter discussed the commitment of a soldier getting ready for combat. Junger described the day he had to leave home to get ready for war, and felt overjoyed knowing that he was going to fight for his country. In the book, West in the World, it says, “Well dressed and raising their hats, …show more content…

Storm of Steel gave us many gruesome deaths, even describing many mutilated death that they had to observe. Witnessing death did not affect soldier harshly as an average person would. An average person would scream or be traumatized of the situation. Junger describes, “Arms and legs and heads stuck out of the slopes; in front of our holes were several limbs and bodies…” (98). He had taught us that soldiers had to adapt to seeing people pass away during war. Death was a norm to these soldiers that also made them lack certain emotions when witnessing someone dying. Usually people would mourn when witnessing a person dying, but not soldiers. Death was basically a routine for the soldiers who had to be at war. The killing of a large number of people was a typical for them. Storm of Steel gives us a insight of how death had become part of their daily life. Uniquely, it gave us an insight of how the soldiers had to survive against diseases. Junger discusses, “Following a week on the front line, we were again moved back to the resistance line, since the battalion which was to relieve us was almost wiped out by Spanish Influenza” (263) Junger talked about how their enemies were also affected by the disease.This gives an insight that soldiers not only had to fight in battle, but had to also survive against diseases that at the moment had no cure

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