Germans in All Quiet on the Western Front

The director's choice of filming this movie with Germans instead of Americans during WW! and WW2 is very interesting, since the majority of the audience who saw this film were Americans who were prejudiced against Germans. Even though it seems that an American audience wouldn't sympathize with German soldiers and their problems, in this movie any viewer of any nationality will not be able to not feel pity and sorrow for the hardships of these soldiers. I think the director used German soldiers on purpose to demonstrate that in the end, we're all humans with the same emotions and dreams. In one scene, the German soldiers were sitting around trying to understand who wanted this war, showing that they didn't want this war anymore than the Americans. This film uses ultra humanization to show how close the soldiers got with each other through the experience of war, which erases some of the hatred towards Germans and makes the viewers understand both sides of the story.