What was Nazi Germany's reaction to the book All Quiet On the Western Front?

Erich Maria Remarque published All Quiet on the Western Front in 1928, several years before the Nazi Party became a political force in Germany. The novel, which depicted the horrors of trench warfare during World War I, immediately struck a chord in the postwar West. By 1930, the book had been translated into several languages and adapted into a movie in America.

The Nazi Party abhorred All Quiet on the Western Front. They claimed that Remarque had lied about the terrors of trench warfare to promote pacifism. They argued that Remarque's pacifist views were preventing Germany from achieving its true military potential. Thus, All Quiet on the Western Front was one of the first books the Nazis banned and burned following their ascension to power in 1933. The Nazis eventually revoked Remarque's German citizenship, so the author was forced to flee the country to the United States.