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Kantorek is a schoolteacher in the novel All Quiet on the Western Front. He is shown as a patriotic and nationalistic figure, who encourages his students to enlist in the army and fight for their country. However, he is later revealed to be a coward, as he flees from the front line when the fighting gets too tough. Kantorek ultimately represents the false idealism of war, and the reality of its brutality.