Does anyone think that WW1 or WW2 were fought with any less atrocity or violence.?

Question

Does anyone feel that prisoners were treated better than they are now? What affect do you think the media plays in all this?

Answer 1

Jane Fonda should dialogue with the suicide bombers.

Answer 2

You've got to be kidding right. WWI brought mustard gas (chem warfare)and trench warfare. Much of the fighting in World War I took place along the Western Front, within a system of opposing manned trenches and fortifications (separated by an unoccupied space between the trenches called "no man's land") running from the North Sea to the border of Switzerland. On the Eastern Front, the vast eastern plains and limited rail network prevented a trench warfare stalemate from developing, although the scale of the conflict was just as large. Hostilities also occurred on and under the sea and — for the first time — from the air. More than nine million soldiers died on the various battlefields, and millions more civilians perished.

WWII brought constant air attacks, bombing raids and unparalleled veracity. Over 7000 US Marines were killed at the Battle of Iwo Jima alone along with an estimated 20,000 Japanese soldiers. In the final analysis of WWII, between 55 and 62 million military and civilians perished. Iraq and Afghanistan cannot even compare..

Answer 3

Pows?Combatants were treated ok on the western front to the best of my knowledge,I certainly havent heard anybody complain about anything.

East front was a different story altogether,no geneva convention,war of annihalations.
Was it something like out of 100000 prisoners captured at stalingrad only 5000 returned to germany after the war,
The germans used just erect a fence aroung their russian prisoners and the just leave them to freeze and starve to death.

WWii east front definately worst time to be a prisoner.

Answer 4

I think it was more violent,what people did then was seen as the soldiers duty,and in a sense was honorable. Now war has become a game of cat and mouse,we don't know the enemy,where they are hiding,and we are just killing random people,which was done then,but now its seen as an atrocity,not something that just happened because they were on the wrong side.

Answer 5

I believe that things were more violent back then because the troops didn't care who they offended, which is the way it should be ! It Is War You Know !

Answer 6

Same violence different hatred.

Answer 7

well it was a different enemy. different beliefs, Germans and Japanese didn't fake surrender as often as terrorists do....different problems cal for different solution