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Kästner was not sent to the front, but the brutality of the military training he underwent and the death of contemporaries he experienced strongly influenced his later antimilitarism. The merciless drilling he was subjected to by his drill sergeant also caused a lifelong heart condition.
Jan 26, 2008 · Erich Kaestner, who at 18 was sent to the Western Front but served only four months in the army, died in a Cologne nursing home, his son said. The death on Sunday of Louis de Cazenave, France's...
Jan 27, 2008 · BERLIN (AP) Erich Kaestner, believed to be the last German veteran of World War I, died Jan. 1 in Cologne. He was 107. No organization keeps track of remaining veterans in Germany, and his...
Jan 22, 2008 · Dr. Erich Kästner, who was born on March 10, 1900, died on January 1, 2008, according to an announcement posted by his family in the Hannoversche Allgemeine newspaper. According to the...
Erich Kaestner, a German believed to have been the country's last World War I veteran, died Jan. 1 in a nursing home in Cologne at the age of 107, his son said Friday.
Aug 8, 2019 · Erich Kästner was a popular political satirist and left-liberal author whose works were burned under the Nazi regime in 1933. Learn more.
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Jan 5, 2008 · Dr. Erich Kästner (March 10, 1900 – January 1, 2008) was the last known German veteran of the First World War. At the time of his death, he was the second-oldest man in Germany (the oldest one did not serve).
