WW2

digitalremote

Hey guys new to this section.


My question is,


Do people who say that "there will never be a war as horrific as WW2" annoy you? Even when there has been wars and will be wars just as "bad" and even more brutal than it?

Just because the memory of it has lived through your grandfathers and the media etc. and "affected" them in a sense directly doesn't make it the most astounding.

marcsignal

digitalremote wrote: »

Hey guys new to this section.

firstly, welcome to the kz. Always speak your mind, but not aloud

digitalremote wrote: »

Do people who say that "there will never be a war as horrific as WW2" annoy you?

no, they don't annoy me, they just mean 'in europe' and conveniently forget about the other 'small conflicts' or 'police actions' that have happened since...

ask 'Kim Phuc' (the girl in the clip below) if it was better to be burned with napalm during 'her' war than it was for some poor cunt who suffered similar horrors in ww2..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev2dEqrN4i0

xflyer

What was horrific about WW2 was the extent and duration of it with the exceptional number of casualties on every side. The massive devastation too was unprecedented and not matched since.

Other wars may have been as fierce, although not recently. But they are much smaller in scale though no less frightening for the participants.

marcsignal

xflyer wrote: »

What was horrific about WW2 was the extent and duration of it with the exceptional number of casualties on every side. The massive devastation too was unprecedented and not matched since.

Quite true I suppose. It was a titanic struggle between different ideologies vying for global control. Other wars since, have had strategic importance, yes, but were largely ‘contained’ by the existence of nuclear weapons, imo.
Another element is the scientific advances that occurred during ww2. The world went from biplanes to jets and guided missiles in 5 years, all at a terrible human cost.

digitalremote wrote: »

Just because the memory of it has lived through your grandfathers and the media etc. and "affected" them in a sense directly doesn't make it the most astounding.

You have to consider how ww2 was portrayed in the great war movies made between the 50s & late 80’s (from The Longest Day to Kellys Heroes, Where Eagles Dare, 633 Squadron, etc etc) None of these movies ever mentioned the Russian contribution because of the cold war, and very much romanticised the British and American contribution. It was only when movies like Das Boot, Stalingrad, and Saving Private Ryan started to come out that the conflict was portrayed with some honesty, in terms of the brutality and inhumanity of it all.

TerrorFirmer

How can it annoy anyone? It's 100% correct. I'm not quite sure what you're even trying to get at. That wars can be just as brutal for the individual as in WW2 throughout history? Of course. But WW2 involved more nations than wars ever had previous - the name itself 'World War' gives the conflict a scale never seen before in warfare. It captured the imagination of the world as a struggle between good and evil. It also cost a colossal amount of money, and is on record as the costliest war in human history. The cost in human life was equally staggering, far bigger than any other conflict up to that point.

That is why people said and say there will never be another war like it. How that could annoy you is beyond me.