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Ernst Jünger can truly be considered not only one of the most prominent authors of German military prose of the 20th century, but also a philosopher who speculated about the results of World War I and reflected on militaristic and pacifist moods within the society of that time. E. Jünger would perceive an enemy not only as a foe, but also as an equal poet fighting for death. He developed this idea in a number of his later works. It was opposing attitudes to the notion of “a friend or a foe” that determined the controversy between E. Jünger and M. Remarque, namely the dual perception of the enemy within these categories. The paper focuses on connections between E. Jünger’s military experience and his perception of “the Other”.