Which is worse? WWII or WWI

It is hard to say. On one hand I think that the soldier's conditions during the 2nd World War seem better, but it wouldn't be nice to know that your civilian family might die in a firebombing, get raped and killed as the enemy conquers one's province or be left to slowly starve because much of the food needs to be allocated to a military so that they can free up more manpower from home.

 

Your insite here is very good, we who have not experience WWI first hand can only imagine.
You also state how their youth is stolen at such a young age. It is a testament to God's grace that anyone would have the mental capacity to endure war, pick up their life, and go on to make a better life for themselves and their families with what's left. We owe so much to the people who fought and died, but also to those who have continued on and built a better world for us after it was all over.
I would also add to those who have had difficulty readjusting to life without war. We owe to them more than they are currently receiving for sure!

 

Little bit pointless...

Rather like asking Jewish survivors of the Death Camps, "Which camp was worse? Treblinka or Ravensbruck?"

All conflicts have their own version of badness. Grande Armee' soldiers retreating from Moscow in 1812 went through privations that few of them escaped. Looking at the average siege in the middle ages, one would have to wonder whther anything could top it. Or Roman soldiers putting every single person captured at Bibracte to the sword.

Terrible memories all....

 

WWI was worse. In WWII there were some deep differences between the totalitarian and Western societies, but this was not the case with WWI. In WWI the societies committing industrial mass murder on each other were essentially the same, and it was all for relatively trivial causes-"The reason for fighting, I never did get" the Bob Dylan song goes. From this senseless tragedy came the Russian Revolution, Hitler, and a general impression amongst the soldiers on all sides that the Captains and Kings were idiots; so it all had some far reaching consequences.
JeffinMNUSA

 

Pizza;
For certain WWII was bloodier, nastier business. But WWI was worse because it was all for basically nothing. My favorite WWI story I heard from an old duffer about thirty some years ago; They were all in the trenches when the Armistice was announced. Immediately both sides came jumping out of their holes and ran down and started shaking hands. A german told my duffer that their big shots knew nothing and the duffer agreed that his were at least as dumb. This was the general consensus. Just a bunch of greedy shitheads playing parlour games and the poor line doggies suffering and dying as a result (this loss of confidence was to have dire consequences in Russia and Germany).
Now your WWII soldier had damn good reasons to be there-as shown by the photo above.
WWI was worse.
JeffinMNUSA
PS. My wife's grandfather came back from WWI a total mess. He died young in 1943 in the Veterans' home.

 

Well, yes, thats true. It depends on which view you look.