Paul Baumer character analysis

He is a young 19 years old German boy who enlisted the army with is friends in school. He is a really kind person, he cares about his friends a lot, and he also knows them really well. Before the war, when he was a young student, he used to write poetry. He and his friends were being trained by a man called Himmelstoss, Paul and his friends really hated him for his strict and ridiculous discipline.