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Why was world war 1 so damn traumatizing and sinister? Something about it just makes my stomach turn. It's madness to the highest degree without cause or goal. Just madness and slaugther for the sake of madness and slaugther. At least WW2 had ideology and good guys/bad guys. In WW1 everyone was a bad guy. There was not even a good reason for it.
It must have appeared as the fucking apocalypse to the generation which experienced it.
>>57568647
only bad guys were s*rbs in WW1
>>57568647
>WW2
>good guys and bad guys
i bet the self hating german knows which is which
>There was not even a good reason for it.
>oh look, some prince who shares half a haplotype with us was killed in some random shithole. Let's declare war on everybody
German logic everyone
>>57568805
Everybody who consider nazis to have good cause is retarded. Yes they were the bad guys, killing people based on their ethnicity alone is retarded
What is wrong with you? The Great War was a good bit of fun; no bad guys, just good sport. A bit rougher than in past, granted, but nothing too nasty. Come to think of it, the Second World War wasn't too different. Who were the bad guys, apart from the Americans and the Russians, what with their republicanism and communism?
In any event, your so called "madness and slaughter" are necessary for civilisation to advance, and indeed to satisfy fundamental instinctual drives for most healthy humans. Having sworn off that stuff, notice how we've been in decline. The problem with the Great War was not that it was dreadful (it really wasn't so bad) but that it precipitated the death-spiral of Western culture. The only way out of the nosedive is war, openly and honestly. Let's get on it, unless you want the dildo.
>>57568805
I guess mass killings of civilians actually makes them the good guys amirite
>>57568953
And his opponents allied themselves with the other bad guys. The world deserves to be nuked.
>>57568805
Yeah the bad guys are Juden.
>>57568647
It's a modern war fought with modern weapons, but with ancient strategies (walking to the ennemy trench in a packed line, like during the napoleonic wars for example), which led to enormous casualties.
Also the people fighting weren't originally soldiers, many of them were farmers, or factory workers, they weren't prepared for that, so many of them ended up traumatised.
>>57568991
>not getting rid of people who will undermine the authority of the state
>maintaining power
Pick one.
>>57568990
America was absolutly irrelevant in WW2 and Russia (USSR) was a good guy.
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>>57569029
America participated, and being a republican nation, is by definition, evil. Communists and socialists are also republicans, and by definition, evil.
>>57568647
Mostly because generals still had 1800-era mindset, but the weapons had advanced by leaps and bounds since then. Those lead to countless unnecessary deaths especially at the start of the war
Any Germans here want to translate this?
>>57569434
We dont fear the american ... (cant read)
We got to "go!" again and again!
t. Wilson
>>57569739
thanks senpai
>>57568647
>old school taitics
>more lethal weaponry
Everyone cucked themselves in WWI
>>57569878
Tactics*
>>57569007
Alter. Anzeige ist raus.
>>57568647
We had some plans to invade Finland during WWI
Such shame that we didn't :'(
>>57568647
Application of old school offensive tactics against new defensive technology. The most notable example being the use of infantry charges against fixed machine gun positions.
If anyone else calls me an English teacher or proxy, I swear...
It was a pointless meme-war.
>>57568921
They had an alliance and the major powers were itching for a war. The assassination was merely a spark to the existing powder keg. Also the Tsar, King and Kaiser were the related ones. It was a family fued that killed millions. I also wish we had nothing to do with it.
Combination of hellish circumstances and the use of chemical weapons make for a real nightmare.
>>57569029
>USSR) was a good guy.
They were the lesser evil before Barbarossa they happily divided up Central and Eastern Europe with the Nazis. We chose to fight with the future enemy over the current.
Lend lease was a major force in Europe. Your army would have moved at walking speed without our trucks. The Allied bombings fucked up the Nazis ability to quickly move goods. Stalin begged for the West to open a new front to distract the Krauts. Also, way to forget the whole Pacific, a war which you lacked the resources and technology to fight.
Is the great war series on youtube any good?
>>57569739
Was writing on a flag really acceptable then?
>>57568647
>without cause or goal.
Yeah maybe from- western countries retarded point of view.
Balkan countries had pretty fucking good reasons to fight in the war.
>>57570268
"Chemical warfare! Chemical warfare! Chemical warfare warfare!.."
>>57570268
Chemical weapons are so terrifying that even Adolf didn't use them. That is really telling.
>>57569980
And now nignogs are invading you.
Karma.
>>57568805
t.dumbfucking poltard, proud 1/156879 pure german
>>57568647
Not hating but I'd take a look at /his/, they have loads of threads on WW1
>>57569013
This, meat-grinder tactics combined with machine guns and artillery was a pretty horrible combination.
>>57571550
I think it's more that they were really unreliable, get the weather wrong and you could be gassing your own troops.
