Was WWI more brutal than WWII?

While both were extremely horrific, I have to say WWI was worse.

If you have a chance and a spare 15 hours, listen to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History series on WWI. Blueprint for Armageddon. It was fantastic.

WWI was worse from a strictly battle standpoint, but the whole genocide thing from WWII makes it worse than WWI.

Yes.
Mankind met modern murder in WW1

The trench warfare aspect of WWI makes it seem much more hellish because of the static locations of battles. In no way, shape, or form does WWI even compare to the human catastrophe that was WWII.

The countless number of human lives lost, whether civilian or military, is not comparable to WWI. WWII is and hopefully will remain the pinnacle of human destruction.

WW1 was essentially 18th century tactics meeting modern killing tech, and it was a meat grinder.




The Somme


In the span of less than a day, British Forces, marching into German Machine gun cross fire, suffered over 60,000 casualties.

Try to wrap your head around that

I went to a meeting a few years ago, and they had vets stand by war/conflict.

I laughed when the general called for WW I vets, but I looked later and found that a few were still living at that time.

Tough old bastard's.

much

Unquestionably.

It's not correct to consider the Holocaust a part of World War 2. It was a crime of the German empire. Trying to attribute it to a war Is faulting in attribution.

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I went to a meeting a few years ago, and they had vets stand by war/conflict.

I laughed when the general called for WW I vets, but I looked later and found that a few were still living at that time.

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The very last documented living WWI veterans died in 2010 and 2011. Unless you have a very broad definition of "a few years ago," you may have been seeing ghosts.

WWI was a horrific meatgrinder for the soldiers on the ground. Not sure if anything compares to it.