The German novelist Erich Maria Remarque was born in Osnabrück in 1898.
His first novel, the famous anti-war epic All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), was written based on his experiences as a soldier in WWI, and published in 1929.
He moved to Switzerland until 1939 and later emigrated to the US.
He died in 1970 in Locarno, Switzerland.
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