Why much more interest in WW2 than WW1

Well, I have relatives who fought in the Civil war,WWI,WWII & Vietnam, so I have an interest in them all, but my main interest is in WWII.

For me, it was mostly my Uncle. He was in WWII, and as a child, I saw him every summer when we'd go to visit my Great grandmother. So I had a corporeal link to WWII thru him. I also can recall my mother telling me of her memories of Pearl harbor as a small child. She said she went out to see where all the soldiers were when her mother told her we were at war. She didn't really understand what it all meant.

So for me, it's a personal link to my family, even though I'm adopted, and so theyre really not my "blood relatives" so to speak..

 

Mainly because my Father was there, as a young boy. So his stories really got me interested. Also, many of the people I know were young boys there as well. Like Fred, who was in the Hitler youth.

 

WWII will be forever remembered as the biggest war of the twentieth century, but if mankind survive so long in the future, they would probably subsumed WWI & II into the same conflict much like how we see the Peloponnesian War, Punic Wars, Roman-ParthianWars,100 Years War, the Italian Wars, 70 Years War, 30 Years War... And we will forget more details through the ages, and only random fragments of historiography would survive.

Such is life.

 

this is only my opinion! my thought not facts!
I can't see us forgetting details of ww2,when there is war vidoes and televison,on the other hand with older wars which were frought with out any documention (apart from soldiers notes) of any kind,so naturaly those wars were forgotting much quckier.
ww2 might fade a little bit but with so much documention,i can't it being forgotten at all.

 

Most of those you have mentioned arent anywhere nearly as documented as WW2 let alone WW1. For starters they are are battles/wars fought centuries ago. Of the wars fought over the centuries WW2 still stands out as something with a bit more oompf. The scope of WW2, the battles fought, the machines used, the planes, the subs, new technologies etc etc.

 

Lots of salient points brought in here. My old man and his brothers were in WW2, his father and his brothers were in WW1, so although there are links to both I've always been more interested in WW2.
Think it was also influenced by tv; The World at War, Combat, and loads of other WW2 programmes were on when I was growing up, whereas the only WW1 programmes I can think of were The Great War on the BBC in the '60s and Aces High in the '70s.
Then there's the sheer scale of WW2; it affected everyone, not just the guys at the front. I still have difficulty getting my head around that yet.