All Quiet on the Western Front
all quiet on the western front
Chapter 5
How does Lt. Bertnick punish Tjaden and Kropp? What does Paul think of Bertnick and the punishment
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They are given open arrest which is a very light sentence. Tjaden gets three days open arrest and Kropp gets one day. They are both quite happy with this.
Bertink gives Kropp a wink and one day's open arrest. "It can't be helped," he says to him regretfully. He is a decent fellow.
Open arrest is quite pleasant. The clink was once a fowl-house; there we can visit the prisoners, we know how to manage it. Close arrest would have meant the cellar.
