"As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through"

This quote by Otto Dix reviews his experience of being a boy throughout World War I. He suggests that he was deeply impacted by the war, but was not able to recognize it at the time. He goes on to discuss that he was haunted by the war for several years afterwards, in the form of nightmares in which he had to crawl through messed up homes. This recommends that the war had a lasting mental influence on him, which he was still having a hard time to come to terms with it even years later on. It is a powerful pointer of the enduring impacts of war, and how it can shape the lives of those who experience it.