In All Quiet on the Wester Front’s chapter 8, Paul heads to a training camp, which is right next store to a Russian Prisoner of war camp. He observes the distinct behavior of the Russians, and how mush closer and warmer they are to one another than the Germans, who Generally don’t interact with other Germans. He believes that this could be because of their depressing circumstance. I believe that it is because they have been imprisoned long enoug with the other Russians, that they know their friends, the Germans only stay at the camp for a few weeks, and so never have the proper time to make friends there. Paul states that “We only know each other well enough to joke and to gamble” which means that he is generally a lone wolf at the camp, with his friends hundreds of miles away on the Western front. For these Russians they only have each other, with their old friends either dead, still fighting or maybe, but extremely unlikely, in the camp with them. With no one to go back to, it makes it much easier for them to squint themselves. The Germans have friends to go back to, and their stay at the camp is temporary, so they stay in solitude.