WWI or WWII - Which war was more brutal/difficult in terms of being a soldier in those wars?

[Thrawn33]

Both is bad.

Fuck that shit.

 

[superpunch]

I think one can reasonably assume that it has something to do with being pinned downed in close quarters, with constant artillery raining down.

WWI has fascinated me for many years. I’ve looked into shell shock briefly. IIRC, strangely enough, they discovered there was no statistically significant difference in the prevalence of shell shock on the front lines, and in the rear.

That said, it is strange you don’t see similar cases(that I’m aware of) produced by other wars. I don’t recall ever hearing about a soldier with PTSD presenting with symptoms like the ones seen in these WWI vids. You would think that similar cases would still occur, albeit at lesser rates.

And yeah, the treatment these men received from their own country is disgusting. Last I heard the British government still won’t pardon a few hundred soldiers who were executed for cowardice, who many claim were shell-shocked.

Watching the vids, it's clear (to me, someone who knows nothing about psychology or medicine) that the people are suffering actual physical neurological damage. PTSD is "just" a psychological problem. There is something physically wrong with their nervous system. It's like they experienced such an extreme state of shock that it "short circuited" their neurons. Like you can short circuit anything electronic if you overload it.. We commonly think "shell shock" to be PTSD nowadays, but I think that's just ignorance; anyone that took just 5 minutes to watch these videos would realize that it's something completely different.

 

[frye666]

ww2 was way worse. ww1 was fucking as horrible as you think, but ww2 was much worst.

 

[ElKarlo]

No wonder he was really that pissed and ambitious to bring back Germany to the top again.

Yeah man. Honestly seeing how WWI radicalized so many Germans, and they lost their powerful empire. I feel that with how Germany was humiliated and then it's economy was wrecked, that wwii was basically given.
What's creepy is after the armistice there's s comic and the parents hear something crying. It was the draft class of 1919.

 

[Aegon Spengler]

Wasn't being a dog fighter in WWI basically a suicide mission? I know it was extremely dangerous(and exhausting) to be a fighter pilot in WWII(particularly for the RAF), but I'm under the impression you'd still have a better chance of survival than the WWI counterparts.

I’m more looking at the total number of air deaths in WW2. The sheer numbers of fighters and the scale of the battles was way different.

 

[Losfer Words]

WW1