In 1930, the film All Quiet on the Western Front was banned in Germany. This paper argues that the ban was not only due to the riots related to screenings of the film, which were incited by Nazis under Joseph Goebbels, but that it was resented by conservatives because it was perceived as a strong attack on their remembrance of the First World War. The paper concludes by suggesting an explanation as to why their specific remembrance of the war was so important to conservative nationalist milieus